Grants awarded by BHHCT
Almost £4 million in grant awards
The Trust has so far given out a total of almost £4 million in grants for the repair and restoration of churches and chapels in Beds and Herts.
In 2021-22, £139,500 in grants was awarded to 20 different churches.
In 2021-22 grants were awarded to:
- Ashwell, URC: vestry floor repair £5,000
- Clothall, St Mary the Virgin: fabric repairs £2,000
- Dunstable, Priory Church of St Pater: organ repair £10,000
- Furneux Pelham, St Mary the Virgin: Roof repairs £10,000
- Great Gaddesden, St John the Baptist: £5,000 for roof repair
- Great Wymondley, St Mary the Virgin: reconstruct floor £7,000
- Houghton Regis, All Saints: major drainage works £10,000
- Kempston, Church of the Transfiguration: roof repair £10,000
- Langleybury, St Paul: heating & lighting £7,500
- Meppershall, St Mary the Virgin: fabric and drainage £10,000
- Milton Bryan, St Peter: structural support investigation £5,000
- Oakley, St Mary: repairs to clock £3,000
- Old Warden, St Leonard: fabric and plaster repair £10,000
- Renhold, Baptist Chapel: roof replacement £10,000
- Royston, St John the Baptist: lighting replacement £7,000
- Shelton St Mary: Surface water disposal £12,000
- Standon St Mary Monument repairs £1,000
- Wigginton, St Bartholomew: repairs to masonry £8,000
- Wilstone, St Cross: access improvements £3,000
- Wrestlingworth, St Peter: stonework repair to turret £10,000
Additionally, four churches were awarded grants of up to £2,500 each for installation of roof alarms - a total of £9,000.
St Mary's church Shelton, Bedfordshire
The North Bedfordshire Church of St Mary, Shelton dates from the 12th century and remains almost as it was when built, with no subsequent alterations.
We awarded St Mary's £12,000 to replace the entire surface water drainage system. Read the full story on our news page.
All Saints Church, Houghton Regis, awarded a grant to repair drainage.
St Bartholomew's, Wigginton awarded a grant for stonework repair