Preservation Grant
Historic England Grant Award Dear Friends, Well, here it is – a watershed moment we have been working towards for years and wanting to share for some time. We can finally announce that Historic England has awarded a grant for £72,533 to Thundridge Old Church Action Group towards the rescue project for the Thundridge Old Church, and […]
Donations
Donating Since TOCAG’s creation, costs have been relatively modest and privately funded, however moving into 2024 we anticipate stepping up activities. Informed by the condition report, we will be moving into a phase where we build a business plan, begin fundraising and grant applications, negotiate legal frameworks under which we take responsibility and hopefully start repairs. […]
Condition Survey
Condition Survey We will be writing much more about this in the near future, but this month we had a milestone moment in our journey to save the church, when Historic England, RH Partnership architects and Brown& Ralph stonemasons and building restorers came together over three days to survey in detail the tower inside and […]
Exhibition at Ware Museum
Exhibition at Ware Museum We have been terribly quiet on the website for the past few months, but this will be the calm before the storm (in a good way). One of the things that has been taking up all our time is preparing for an exhibition at Ware Museum. We’ve not done anything like […]
St Georges Church
St Georges Church, Anstey As our Old Church tower is now an empty shell and closed to prevent vandalism (see History of Thundridge Old Church for some pictures), it can be difficult to imagine what it was once like. We were therefore very fortunate and grateful to be able to visit the tower St Georges Church, […]
Historic England Archeological Survey
Archaeological Survey On 21st February we met with the Historic England survey team at the Old Church where they were conducting a landscape and archaeological survey. A new advanced drone, only a few months old was used. It is programmed to overfly the site automatically on a precalculated track, no matter the wind or weather, […]
New (Old) Church Images
We have had several people interested in what the tower used to look like before the windows were protected from vandalism Here are two images from summer 1906 A few things you may note from the photograph of the tower (some zooming in is required) The sundial arm is intact and in place, and the […]
Ware’s The Community
Ware’s the Community Event On Saturday 14th January TOCAG were delighted to have a stall at the ‘Ware’s the Community event’ at the Southern Maltings. This is a new event based on an idea from France, where all community based organisations in and around Ware get together and give local residents a chance to find […]
Condition Survey
Condition Survey As outlined here in more detail, one of the immediate essential next steps for TOCAG remains to carry out a comprehensive condition survey of the tower. It is critical that as an organisation we know what state the tower is in, and how much it will cost to maintain it for the next […]
Snow December 2022
Snow – December 2022 Here are some pictures of the church during the cold snap before Xmas 2022, when overnight temperatures fell to -8oC with heavy snowfall Spot the Owl (i.e. find the Owl, his name is not ‘Spot’) The scheduled monument from the churchyard looking West The West face of the tower North and […]