Lottery cash to repair Herefordshire churches (From Hereford Times)
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Lottery cash to repair Herefordshire churches
8:00am Wednesday 6th February 2013 in News
St Peter's Church in Pipe-cum-Lyde is one of the churches receiving Heritage Lottery Fund money for essential repairs
THE DIOCESE of Hereford saw its prayers answered after receiving more than half a million pounds from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Eight churches in the area covered by the diocese – three in Herefordshire and five in Shropshire – will be given a total of £551,000 to spend on structural repairs and renovations to ensure they remain fit for future use.
St Tysilio’s Church at Sellack, near Ross-on-Wye, was given £75,000 towards repairs to the spire and tower while both St Peter’s Church in Pipe-cum-Lyde, near Hereford, and St Mary the Virgin Church in Middleton-on-the-Hill near Leominster, each received £63,000.
St Peter’s will spend some of this money on an overhaul of the nave and chancel roofs, while St Mary’s will be completely reroofed with the tower also repaired.
This work will be carried out over the next two to three years.
mizza21 says...
10:32am Wed 6 Feb 13
Precisely where lottery funding should go.
I personally do not pay the "fools tax" so I am pleased this is where this sort of funding comes from as I would most certainly not wish to fund it from my direct taxes.
It's a lovely irony as well because I doubt many of the churchgoers or visitor to the church are lottery players.