Sandon All Saints Heritage
Our 12th Century Staffordshire church has been awarded £94,000 to restore rare artefacts. The funding will be used to restore an integrated display of post-reformation genealogical paintings on the walls and the Erdeswicke family monuments and tombs spanning five generations from the time of Elizabeth I onwards. We also hope to restore our Charles I Royal Coat of Arms and our 19th Century stained glass windows.
About The Project
Sandon All Saints is a Grade I Listed church dating from the 12th Century and is Listed for a rare survival in this country, of an integrated display of post-reformation genealogical paintings on the walls, heraldic glass above the altar and the Erdeswicke family monuments and tombs spanning five generations from the time of Elizabeth I onwards. There is also a large Royal Coat of Arms thought to be of Charles I and two 19th century stained-glass windows by William Wailles in the style of Augustus Pugin, who designed the Houses of Parliament. The restoration of all of these is included in the Heritage Fund bid.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has made the grant to allow the heritage team at the church to widen the audiences that can share this heritage and remove barriers to access through more regular opening times, events and the development of a website to record the heritage and follow the conservation processes in due course. The ambition is to support local schools with teaching materials based on the many centuries the church has existed and its own stories that are unique to All Saints and to encourage those who love to explore the history of buildings and their places to come along and support the development of our Delivery bid. If you, or anyone you know, is interested in getting involved or have connections to local schools or clubs who might like to visit the church, please contact us.
The Leche Trust
The Leche Trust is a grant-making charity founded and endowed by the late Angus Acworth CBE in 1963. The Trust support the conservation of historically, artistically and culturally significant buildings and objects dating from before 1837 that are in urgent need of remedial treatment.
Staffordshire Historic Churches Trust
The Churches of our nation are an integral part of how we see ourselves. Like the warp in a tapestry or fabric, these iconic buildings remain broadly stationary throughout time whilst the weft of our societal changes weaves in and out amongst the communities in which we live.
In Staffordshire we are blessed with a rich mix of these places of worship and on this website we invite you to connect with your own history by engaging with the churches around you.
We organise a number of guided church tours and help with maintenance grants via the generous donations of our members. Pre-pandemic we had a social event and hope to repeat this in the coming years.
Benefact Trust
Benefact Trust exists to make a positive difference to people's lives by funding, guiding and celebrating the work of churches and Christian charities; empowering the most vulnerable and giving people, communities and places a renewed opportunity to flourish.
As a Trust, our ability to support and fund so many worthwhile causes, is made possible by the hard work of the award-winning specialist financial businesses that make up Benefact Group – which gives all its available profits to the Trust, sustaining our giving. As a part of the Benefact Group each business, whether it be in specialist insurance, investment management, broking or advisory shares the Trust’s ethos of giving back.
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