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News from Scotland's Churches Trust

Grants Awarded September 2014

St Joseph’s RC, Blantyre. Gothic Revival church of 1905 by Pugin & Pugin, interior embellished 1938. Roof and window repairs. £3,000 Kilsyth Church of God. Relatively unaltered example of A-frame church of the 1960s, by James Thompson & Sons....

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Positif Organist 2014-15

Positif Organist helps participants to develop and broaden their skills and knowledge as church organists. It is for pianists and organists of any denomination who play, or wish to play, the organ in churches and who are seeking to improve their transfer...

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Grants Awarded May 2014

Holy Trinity Episcopal, Elgin. Gothic church on a Greek cross ground-plan to a design by William Robertson, 1826. Window repairs. £2,500 Gorebridge Parish Church. Gothic church of nave, chancel transepts and spire, 1884-5 by Hardy & Wight. Window and...

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Grants Awarded February 2014

Crosshouse Parish Church. Gothic Revival church with tower, 1882 by Bruce & Sturrock, built in red sandstone. Ceiling repairs. Grant for conservation report £1,000; grant for repairs £2,000 Fetteresso Parish Church. Crenellated, castle-style church...

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Grants Awarded November 2013

Viewfield Parish Church, Striling. Gothic church with steeple on a sloping site, 1860 by F & W Mackison. General repairs. £2,000 Life Church, Edinburgh. Simple classical church adorned with doric columns, 1812. Repairs to roof and rain water goods....

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Grants Awarded August 2013

Newhills Parish Church, Bucksburn, Aberdeen. Simple church with large round-headed windows of 1833 by Archibald Simpson. Roof repairs. £3,000 Bothwell Parish Church. Medieval collegiate church 1398 forms the choir; nave and tower 1833 by David Hamilton,...

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Cathedrals Plus represented at the 2013 Gathering

Judy Davies, Secretary of Cathedrals Plus, writes in the July 2013 Newsletter: "Scotland's Churches Trust very kindly invited me to their Gathering in Dunfermline Abbey which was being attended by their patron, Princess Anne. It was a superb occasion in a...

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Grants Awarded May 2013

Grants totalling £21,000 were awarded by the Grants Committee in May 2013. St Andrew’s Episcopal, Ardrossan (pictured). Simple cruciform church in pink sandstone by David Thomson, 1875, in Early English Gothic style. General repairs. £4,000...

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Scotland’s Churches Trust Gathering 2013

The first Gathering of Scotland's Churches Trust was held on 1 May 2013 at Dunfemline Abbey. We were delighted to have our Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, join us, as she has done at earlier SCS Gatherings, meeting most of our guests at the Reception in...

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The repair and maintenance of war memorials

This Short Guide summarises the architectural styles and artistic designs of war memorials most often found in Scotland. It considers the types of materials used; the risks to the structures from physical, biological or atmospheric agents; and the...

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