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Meet our team: Joanna Weaver, Volunteer

A group photo, around 25 staff are gathered under a stunning archway.

10th February 2021

In this blog series we look forward to introducing our team here at the CCT. We hope you will enjoy learning more about the scope and variety of the work that we do.

Meet our team: Layla Fedyk, Volunteer Interpretation Assistant

3rd March 2021

This month we heard from Layla Fedyk who has recently joined us as a Volunteer Interpretation Assistant.

Holy Trinity – The restoration and conservation journey of a Sunderland church and its organ

organ keyboard and keys

26th March 2021

Holy Trinity has been in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT) since 1988. However until recently, the Grade I listed building, which is the oldest in Sunderland’s East End, has been on Historic England’s ‘at risk’ register.

Celebrating 50 years since we took on caring for our first church

Exterior built from locally quarried magnesian limestone. Chancel, nave and lower part of the west tower from the 12th century and the belfry stage of the tower and majority of the windows Perpendicular style

7th May 2021

Fifty years ago today, our first church of St Peter’s Edlington was vested with CCT

The call of the craft skills

Images of circus performers and art aerial and trapeze equipment

2nd July 2021

We find out about some of the recent projects that our craft skills contractors have been working on.

Becoming a young Conservation Champion

child using a measuring tool looking upwards in the church nave

16th July 2021

Our Heritage Learning team encourages children and young people to stand in the footsteps of our ancestors, create an inspired artwork - even find out about fungus!

Church Monument of the Month - August 2021 - St Mary's, Chilton

Stone monument of a woman and seemingly a small child wearing decorative robes engraved in stone

4th August 2021

Step inside into one of Suffolk’s best-kept secrets...

Church Monument of the Month - September 2021- St Peter's Church, Deene

marble reclining statues with female statue lying on side facing male statue with thick moustache and long hair.

13th September 2021

A splendid monument created by Sir J.E. Boehm.

Church Monument of the Month - October 2021 - St Cosmas & St Damian, Stretford

Stone carved effigies of St Cosmas and St Damian

13th October 2021

One of Herefordshire’s most rural and un-spoilt churches

Rising to the challenge at All Souls’, Bolton

Red brick church exterior in town seen above top of terrace houses.

9th November 2021

This summer we caught up with Richard Miller, Centre Manager at All Souls’ Church in Bolton, to see what the last year has had in store for the former regeneration project turned community centre and meeting space.

Our response to Mission in Revision GS2222

Church exterior with surrounding wall and wooden gate and shingled spirelet

10th November 2021

The Churches Conservation Trust has responded to the consultation of the Pastoral Measure 2011, Mission in Revision GS2222.

English and Welsh Carved Cadavers: An Overview with Dr Christina Welch

presenter bends down to look at a tomb with two reclined statues with worn faces

22nd December 2021

Learn more about one of the medieval world's most bizarre, yet incredible funerary monuments; the carved cadaver...

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