All Saints Church, Newton on Ouse, North Yorkshire has received a confirmed grant of £175,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the All Saints Roof and Fabric Repair project, it was announced today. The project aims to restore this Grade II listed church so that it is once more able to fulfil its role as a hub of community life and a link between past and present.
Thanks to National Lottery players the project will carry out essential repairs to the 165yr old roofs, stonework and glazing as well as work to the 11th Century Tower. This will conserve the rich heritage of All Saints Church and, in combination with plans for new leaflets and displays, open up this wealth of history to an increasing range of audiences. There will be exhibitions about the different churches which have been on the site and the features of the current church as well as talks on the role the church has played in village life. As the local church for prominent landowners the Dawnay family All Saints was designed to impress. Regarded as the most elaborate of architect GT Andrews’ church designs, All Saints has many wonderful architectural features as well as being a focal point for all major life events in the three villages making up the parish – Newton on Ouse, Linton on Ouse and Beningbrough. The tall white spire of All Saints is a local landmark and was used as a navigation aid during World War II for planes returning to RAF Linton on Ouse. One of the churchwardens, David Theakstone, said on behalf of Newton on Ouse Parochial Church Council: “We are delighted to have been awarded this grant – without the generosity of the Heritage Lottery Fund a project on this scale would have been impossible for us. After two years of planning we can at last look forward to making firm plans for the project as we seek to repair and restore the important heritage within the church and encourage greater engagement within our community and the wider public. As more and more people become interested in their family and local history it is vital we protect these wonderful buildings and keep them open to the public.” Explaining the importance of the HLF support, Fiona Spiers, Head of HLF Yorkshire and Humber, said; “There is a place of worship in almost every ward, village and town across the Yorkshire and Humber region, providing a very powerful visual connection with our past. This award to All Saints Church, Newton on Ouse will help safeguard the future of the church, protecting the building whilst enabling people to learn more about the stories and heritage of the building.”
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We are delighted to be able to announce that the All Saints Roof Repair Project has been awarded a grant of £9,900 by the Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust (YHCT). The YHCT is a charity who provide funds for the repair, maintenance and restoration of Yorkshire’s churches, chapels and meeting houses.
The funding was granted at the YHCT’s recent grants committee, which saw over £58,000 allocated to fund vital repairs to the roofs, windows and ancient stonework of 12 of the region’s most vulnerable places of worship, including £4000 to St Wilfrid in South Kilvington. Reverend Malcolm Wainwright said: “All Saints is a real hub of community life and we are delighted to have received this funding. It means the vital repair works can now begin, the church can continue to offer a range of activities and be a welcoming place for the local community.” David Quick, Chair of the Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust, said “With its prominent spire being seen for miles around, All Saints is an important part of the local community, and we are delighted that this last amount of funding will ensure the essential repair works can now begin”. He continued: “The YHCT relies on the generosity of friends and donors to help fund repairs which will ensure the county’s much loved places of worship remain standing from many years to come.” You can find out more about the YHCT on their website.
We are now just £10,000 short of our target and need YOUR help for the repairs to happen this year. If you're a local business why not show your commitment to the community and sponsor a slate to keep this beautiful building open. Or perhaps you are giving up chocolate or crisps for Lent - you could use the money you save to do your bit to help ensure this link to our past can continue to be used by future generations. Since the campaign was launched last year we have had 85 slates sponsored which has raised over £2,000. Sponsor forms can be found online, at the back of the church, or just ask any PCC member. The recent bad weather has shown just how important it is that we make the church watertight and ensure the slates are safely fastened in place. We have now approached all of the big funders and are waiting to hear back from the smaller ones as we make one last push to raise the money in time. Please help us to reach our target of £258,000 and keep this local landmark open! We are delighted to announce that the All Saints Roof Repair Project has been awarded a £10,000 Repair Grant from the National Churches Trust. This was our second application to the NCT for this project and we are immensely grateful to them for considering us again and deciding to award us a grant.Broadcaster and journalist Huw Edwards, vice-president of the National Churches Trust said: “This funding will help ensure that this beautiful Yorkshire church continues to serve local people for many years to come.” “At the heart of the nation’s history and at the centre of local communities, churches and chapels are some of the UK's best loved local buildings. But their future is not guaranteed.” He added: “Everyone can make a contribution to the future of the UK's church and chapel buildings. That could be by helping to clear drains and gutters to help keep churches watertight, volunteering to help out as a guide to show people the history and architecture of places of worship or keeping an eye out for vandals or thieves. “ “Churches and chapels may be historic buildings, but they can be part of our future, too.” This generous grant brings us one step closer to our goal of repairing the Nave and South Aisle roofs and carrying out the urgent repairs to the Tower and Clerestory. Our final fundraising target of £258,000 is within sight and any help towards that goal would be gratefully received. We are still accepting Sponsor A Slate forms from individuals and/or businesses as we try to raise that last few thousand pounds. Our project was not the only one to benefit - a total of 29 churches and chapels in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland received the latest grants from the National Churches, the UK church repair and support charity. In our region Wilfrid’s Parish Church in South Kilvington, near Thirsk also received £10,000 to help fund urgent repairs. Their grant will be used to fund stabilising the east wall, which is moving out from the top, repairing the sanctuary roof and floor from water damage and replacing damaged roof tiles and rainwater fittings. Photos of the churches benefitting from this latest round of grants can be found via this Flickr link. The latest grant announcement concludes a year in which the UK's church repair and support charity has awarded or recommended funding of £2.2 million to help 177 churches, chapels and meeting houses.
Advent is upon us and you will soon be seeing angel heralds on Christmas cards and in shop window displays. There are angels at All Saints too but sadly the damp conditions and water ingress caused by our leaking roofs is causing irreparable damage. The image to the left clearly shows the impact the damp conditions have on the soft stone of these carvings and that of the main structures of the church. We are doing our very best to organise a project to halt the damage and repair the roofs as soon as possible but we can't do it without your help. If you are stuck for a present for someone who has everything or would like to do something in memory of a loved one at this special time of year please consider sponsoring a slate and help us protect the church and keep it and its heritage available for future generations. The Historic England – Heritage At Risk Register 2015 has recently been published and is well worth a look. As well as the large buildings you might expect to find there are also listings for barrows and monuments that you might not know are on your doorstep.
We are pleased to say that All Saints has been downgraded from Category C (Slow decay; no solution agreed) to Category D (Slow decay; solution agreed but not yet implemented). This is a result of the hard work of the volunteers who put together the All Saints Restoration Project so that there is now a plan to halt the building’s decline. It is only the first step towards our long term aim of securing the future of All Saints and ensuring it is no longer classed as ‘At Risk’ but it is nice to see progress after two years of work on the project! Once again huge thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund for supporting our Development Phase. There have been numerous necessary investigations and surveys, as well as professional fees, to pay for and the repair Grants for Places of Worship Scheme was absolutely vital in enabling us to afford them all. Taking on a large project can be a daunting task – even just completing the paperwork. To help those who are considering putting a project together we are going to host useful guidance, documents and links on this site to share what we have learned throughout the process.
To begin with we have placed links to the guidance offered by the Heritage Lottery Fund on our new ‘Useful guidance’ page. This can be found via this link or under the ‘Repair project’ tab on the site header. We’ve also included a few tips we hope will be useful as a starting point. Project News: After a delay when we had to reduce the scope of the project we are now putting the finishing touches to our revised plans and completing all the associated paperwork. Because of the huge price increase from our initial budget we have had to reduce the project so that we are now proposing to re-roof just the Nave and South Aisle, along with the necessary urgent repairs to the Tower and Clerestory windows. More details to follow once we have confirmation. All Saints Church is now on Facebook! You can find us via this link and keep up to date with all the latest news and events. Many thanks to the volunteer running this for us.
The Project Team are still busy with the HLF application. The tenders are back and we have been quoted almost £200,000 for the slates alone. We are looking at ways to reduce costs so that the project can still go ahead but we need your help more than ever. Sponsor A Slate forms are available on the website here and at the back of the church. We have already raised over £1,000 through slate sponsorship - a fantastic achievement and we are hugely grateful to everyone who has already donated. Thank you to all those who have attended our recent fundraising events - they were a great success. We are now concentrating on finishing our second-round Heritage Lottery Fund Repair Grants for Places of Worship application. As you can imagine with a project of this size there is a lot of paperwork involved - as the image above illustrates.
Our Sponsor A Slate campaign continues to gather pace as word spreads and we hope to have reached an impressive milestone by next month's update. Sponsor forms are available here on the website and from inside the church and we would welcome your support to keep All Saints Church open for future generations. |
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