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Red ceramic floor tiles ornated with birds
  • 12th February 2025
This is a picture-postcard church that stands hidden by trees in a delightful setting by the Little Stour. As you approach, the first thing you notice is the small spire and bell tower, followed by the beautiful flint, ragstone, and brickwork of the church.
Image of the interior of the church with the altar the back
  • 10th January 2025
St Leonard’s Church was completed in 1557, a rare product of Queen Mary I’s short but transformative reign. While Mary’s persecution of Protestants earned her the nickname “Bloody Mary,” it’s worth remembering that she was undoing her father, Henry VIII’s, systematic dismantling of Catholicism.
Old painting depicting the Angel and St Mary
  • 4th December 2024
The 6th of December is the feast day of St. Nicholas and even though St. Nick's is not a big festival in Britain, there is a CCT church dedicated to this Saint, known for primarily for his generosity, St Nicholas of Myra, Ozleworth, Gloucestershire. Read more about this fascinating Norman church and it's many treasures...
Image of the exterior of the stone built church
  • 7th November 2024
Following the launch of the Annual Appeal, Windows: Framing England's History, we focus on the impact of heritage crime on the idyllic country church of St Mary's in Old Dilton.
All Saints Church with Perpendicular tower
  • 29th October 2024
As part of each Members' Exclusive Lecture series, we share the in-depth history of one of our churches. This month, we looked at All Saints' Church, Alton Priors
External view of the flinted wall church
  • 29th October 2024
Two ‘sister’ churches in Kent built shortly after the Norman conquest, were united in grief by the Black Death when one came to the aid of the other. Subsequently both were abandoned for centuries. Now they are reunited once again when a debt is finally to be repaid some 650 years later.
Sedilia with red painted background, with gold reoccurring cross shapes alongside black cross pattern. With colourful embodied pillow in each niche.
  • 18th February 2025
Have you ever spotted decorated niches in the chancel and wondered what they are?
a table in a church with chocolate rabbits in pink and blue foil and fake yellow and white flowers
  • 3rd April 2023
Learn how to knit or crochet your own egg cosy ahead of our Easter Egg Hunts in Leeds and York.
Builder working on roof of church with hand-held saw
  • 27th November 2020
A closer look at the ways in which we care for our churches.
stained glass window with figure at centre waist upwards in a black high neck dress and wearing a white cap
  • 4th October 2021
On This Day: a look back at the life of WWI nurse Edith Cavell

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