St Martin's Bremhill Lottery Grant
Dry at Last! (125 years too late)
St Martin’s Church, Bremhill awarded grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to protect the church from rainwater damage.
St Martin’s Bremhill Drainage Project update
We are delighted to be able to report that the works the PCC commissioned Mark Brookman and his team to carry out to sort out the age old damp problem for our historic church building have been completed. I believe that all of us in this community will agree that the work looks to have been very well done with some special touches, especially the stone work on the south corner of the tower where the plastic water butts used to be. However much more has been completed, not so readily visible which is testament to the craftmanship of Mark and his team.
The good news is that they will be coming back in the new year to undertake much of the outstanding repair work that was high- lighted in the recent Quinquennial Review by our Architect.
We are most grateful to Mark and his team for their outstanding work and for George Chedburn and Tom Welch from Chedburn Cobb who designed the scheme and have supervised its execution.
The funding for this significant undertaking was provided by The Heritage Lottery Fund (up to £47,000), Charlcutt Reading Room (£5,000), Bradenstoke Solar Farm Community Fund
(£10,000), Salisbury Diocese Fund for Buildings for Mission (£9,000), Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust (£3,000) and Benefact Trust (£2,500).
We are enormously grateful to those funders. As a consequence of the external funding, especially that from The Heritage Lottery Fund, we are able to push on right way, not only in carrying out all the on-going maintenance work to the building but also progress the plans for a re-ordering of the interior to make the wonderful building fit for worship and as a part of community life in the 21st Century. So we are enormously grateful for all the support that so many of you have given, both in time and money to get us to this position. It is quite surprising and indeed humbling to think that about ten years ago we only had £800 in the church current account!
from The Churchwardens
Further information
For further information, images and interviews please contact the Saint Martin’s, Bremhill project team: stmartinsprojects@mardenvale.org.uk
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Young Voices
A junior choir for young people to come along and learn to sing. Friday evenings from 5.45-6.45.