Christopher Howse

The tiny charity that saves derelict churches from destruction

The church’s timber belltower [Alamy] 
issue 18 December 2021

There is a plateau of neglect upon which an old church seems to sit for a while blessedly spared from ‘improvement’. But on the far side of the plateau, the land falls away steeply to closure, vandalism and ruination.

St Mary’s church, Mundon, possessed of a rare tranquillity, had begun slipping off the plateau by 1975.

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