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Latest News

Aug 21, 2011

Allington St John the Baptist in Wiltshire is now featured on the Friends website.  

Apr 27, 2011

The Friends' AGM will be held on Saturday 15 October 2011 at Long Crichel Church, one of our recent vestings. 

Dec 6, 2010
We have acquired 4 new churches in England. 

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Notes for Editors 

The Friends of Friendless Churches was established in 1957 as a registered charity to save ancient and beautiful churches from demolition and decay.

 

The Society was initially founded to campaign for, and grant aid, redundant churches or those facing closure. In the 1970's however the Friends amended their Constitution to allow them to go one step further and save threatened churches by taking direct ownership of them.

 

The charity now owns 40 Grade II* or Grade I listed churches, including three private chapels and one Non-Conformist chapel, that would otherwise have been demolished, destroyed or inappropriately converted.

 

Half of their vestings are in England and half in Wales.

 

The Friends of Friendless Churches is a very small charity and works in partnership with the Ancient Monuments Society. It relies on donations, subscriptions and bequests to continue its work. 

 

The Friends also benefit from generous support in Wales (see FFC in Wales) and is very grateful indeed for substantial grants from English Heritage for 4 of our churches