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The Churches Conservation Trust, which was initially known as the Redundant Churches Fund, is a charity whose purpose is to protect historic churches at risk, those that have been made redundant by the Church of England. The Trust was established by the Pastoral Measure of 1968. [1]
The Historic Chapels Trust is a British Registered Charity set up to care for redundant non-Anglican churches, chapels, and places of worship in England. To date, its holdings encompass various nonconformist Christian denominations and Roman Catholic sites.
A redundant church, now referred to as a closed church, is a church building that is no longer used for Christian worship. The term most frequently refers to former Anglican churches in the United Kingdom, [1] but may also be used for disused churches in other countries. Redundant churches may be deconsecrated, but this is not always done. [2]
Throughout the district of Chichester, churches and chapels have fallen out of religious use and in many cases now have a new function. "The Old Chapel" at Nutbourne, now in commercial use, was built for Bible Christian worshippers in 1905. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) In the ...
The trust was established by the Pastoral Measure of 1969 [4] under its original name, the Redundant Churches Fund. The legally defined object of the trust is "the preservation, in the interests of the nation and the Church of England, of churches and parts of churches of historic and archaeological interest or architectural quality vested in the Fund ... together with their contents so vested".
Subsequently, the chancel was used as a mortuary chapel. In 1971, the dilapidated state of the church led to it being formally declared redundant and in 1972 it became the responsibility of the Redundant Churches Fund which became the Churches Conservation Trust. [113] The interior of the church includes an early Georgian reredos. [114] I; St Mary,
The rest of the church was entirely rebuilt in 1872, re-using some earlier material. In the chapel is a hammerbeam roof with carvings that include the emblems of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. The church was declared redundant in 1975. The chapel was vested in the Trust in 1981, and the rest of the church has been converted for other uses ...
The National Churches Trust is a registered charity. The full definition of its objectives and activities are "to promote the conservation, repair, maintenance, improvement, and reconstruction of churches (to mean any recognised Christian places of worship, chapel or meeting house in the UK), and of such monuments, fittings, stained glass, furniture, organs, bells, in such churches and to ...