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Post-War Churches In Scotland

  "Stirred by the Storm" - Book Review   Lesley CummingAugust 2024Lesley Cumming, a long term Friend of Scotland's Churches Trust and leading volunteer in our nationwide church recording project, reviews the recently published book "Stirred by the Storm",...

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A Thousand Years – A Thousand Churches

A Thousand Years – A Thousand Churches

A Thousand Years - A Thousand Churches: Ten Years of Scotland's Churches Scheme A thousand years of surviving church buildings? Not quite yet. A thousand churches in the handbook? Yes! Ten years of Scotland's Churches Scheme? Yes, yes! In this 21st century...

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Grants Awarded May 2015

Glasgow Evangelical Church. Fine Italianate Baroque style church by John Honeyman, 1878, A-listed. Roof, masonry and other repairs. £5,000 Mauchline CoS. “Heritors’ Gothic” church with tower of 1829 by William Alexander, C listed. Repairs to roof, masonry...

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Pilgrim Guide to Scotland – 25% off!

"Pilgrim Guide to Scotland" by Donald Smith is available from Scotland's Churches Trust at 25% off. The cover price is £14.99 but you may buy it for £11.25. You may collect the book from the Trust's office on The Mound in Edinburgh (telephone or email...

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Grants Awarded January 2015

St Joseph's RC, Aberdeen. Gothic church with attached hall by E W Pugin, 1856. Roof repairs. £5,000 St Mirin's RC Cathedral, Paisley. Neo-Romanesque in style with an airy arched interior, 1931, by Thomas Baird. Replacement (like-for-like) of main doors....

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Grants Awarded March 2015

St Stephen’s RC, Blairgowrie. B-listed Gothic church with tall, narrow nave and aisles, 1856, by E W Pugin. Roof repairs. £3,000 Arbroath West Kirk. B-listed Gothic church with aisles, porch and tall tower, 1879, by Edward & Robertson. Roof, masonry...

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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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