Bishop of London speaks for CCT funding at General Synod

19 July 2011

General Synod recently debated “The Payments to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 2011” and voted unanimously in favour of continuing the grant for CCT until 2015

Bishop of London speaks for CCT funding at General Synod

The Bishop of London, The Rt Revd Richard Chartres introduced the debate and asked for General Synod's support for funding CCT.

He updated on encouraging developments such as the return of two urban church buildings to parochial use to serve new worshipping communities. Bishop Chartres highlighted that since the last payment order in 2005

"the Trust has taken on and repaired newly vested churches in the Dioceses of Canterbury; Ripon and Leeds; Lincoln; York; St Edmundsbury; Lichfield; Gloucester; Salisbury; Chester and St Albans. Without the Trust these churches would still have been a drain on parochial or diocesan funds."

The Bishop commended the Trust for  "being energetic in raising funds elsewhere" and  "working with the Church Commissioners to identify beneficial de-vesting opportunities."

Read a full transcript of the speech here

Listen to the an audio version of the discussion here

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Comments

  1. Eileen Parry (15 Aug 2011, 17:54)

    July 2010 the Bishop of London confirmed my Granddaughter in the Temple church London. We had a long chat about the Trusts work in my Church St Marys Shrewsbury. I was able to inform him to the work the Friends of St Marys do and the money that we raise for the church. He knows St Marys and was very pleased that we kept it in the same tradition as it was as a parish church. Also that it is used for concerts and that proplr could see the wonderful windows.

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