English heritage fund awards $6.5 million for conservation in Church of England parishes

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[The Church of England] The Church of England has been awarded more than $6.5 million to fund a “much needed” expansion in work to conserve cultural and historical heritage in parish churches in a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. 

The Fund has announced $6.1 million to support the Church of England’s Conservation Grants Scheme over the next five years, helping churches to preserve a range of features from stained glass windows to paintings, clocks, bells, organs and monuments.

The award, which rises to $7.1 million in value with match funding, will enable the scheme also to fund grants for church fabric repairs of up to $33,000 that are linked to the conservation of an object – such as mending guttering if a leak is affecting wall paintings.

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