St Bride's featured on Heritage at Risk Register
This week Historic England published the Heritage at Risk Register, the annual report of the critical health of England's most valued historic places, and those most at risk of being lost.
St Bride’s has been categorised in the highest priority group, Group A, which denotes “immediate risk of further rapid deterioration or loss of fabric; no solution agreed.” The report states that “Inadequate roof pitches and rainwater systems have allowed long term water ingress and consequent timber decay.”
In 2018 we made a bid for a substantial grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to restore and renew the buillding as the cumulation of a three-year project to reimagine St Bride’s for the future. The details of the project are available here on our website on the Re-imagining St Bride's page. Sadly our bid was not successful and the project was paused while we waited for planned changes to the HLF funding criteria to be finalised. We hope to make another bid at some point in the future.
The Register can be viewed on the Historic England website https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/har-2020-registers/. St Bride’s is featured on page 65 of the PDF register for the North West.
If you’d like to donate to the work of St Bride’s and the upkeep of the building you can do in one of two ways:
To set up a new regular monthly gift, please ring the Parish Giving Scheme on 0333 002 1271. You will need your bank account details and the code of the church you want to support which for St Bride’s is 220622045
You can also make a one-off donation online via our new donation page.
THANK YOU for all that you do and give in support of our parish!