Useful Links

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This page aims to provide a list of useful links for those who care for church buildings in the Diocese of Southwark.

National Church links

• Churchcare - a website set up by the Church of England (in conjunction with the Ecclesiastical Insurance Group) which provides a wealth of useful information.
• Church of England - main site
• Council for the Care of Churches
• National Aerials Agreement
• Church House Bookshop
• Church Plans On-Line (Lambeth Palace Library)
• Churchart
• Shrinking the Footprint

Accessibility and the Disability Discrimination Act

• Through the Roof
• Disability Rights Commission
• Disability Discrimination Act - government website

Conservation bodies and amenity societies

• English Heritage
• Ancient Monuments Society
• Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
• Twentieth Century Society
• Victorian Society
• Georgian Group
• Friends of Friendless Churches
• Churches Conservation Trust
• Church Monuments Society
• Ecclesiological Society
• Natural England
• William Morris Society

Archaeology

• Association of Diocesan & Cathedral Architects
• Council for British Archaeology

Grant making bodies

• Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage
  A special programme for repair grants for places of worship in England, which will mainly help conserve and sustain heritage at risk.
• Historic Churches Preservation Trust
• Landfill Tax Credit Scheme
• Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
• Memorials Grant Scheme
• Funds for Historic Buildings
  A website run by the Architectural Heritage Fund that give details of many grant making bodies.

Pipe Organs

• Royal School of Church Music - The Organ and its Care
• East Surrey Organists Association
• National Pipe Organ Register at the University of Cambridge
• British Institute of Organ Studies
• Institute of British Organ Building
• Association of Independent Organ Advisers

Bells

• Central Council of Church Bell Ringers
• Surrey Association of Church Bell Ringers
• Southwark Cathedral Society of Bellringers
• Church Bells of Kent
• Kent County Association of Change Ringers
• Keltek Trust - helping churches locate surplus and redundant bells.

War memorials

• War Memorials Trust
• War Memorials: A Code of practice for Custodians (issued by the Home Office) (319KB pdf file)

Security

• National Churchwatch
• Church Safety

Professional Services

• Ecclesiastical Architects' & Surveyors' Association
• Architects Accredited in Building Conservation

Churchyards and Memorials

• Caring for God's Acre
• Memorials by Artists
• The Arthur Rank Centre

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