by Andrew Lambourne | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
In early March (2020) we heard the fantastic news that the National Lottery Heritage Fund had decided to award us the funding for the Delivery Phase of our project to repair the medieval nave roof and clerestory windows of St Leonard’s Church in Flamstead, and...
by Andrew Lambourne | Apr 3, 2020 | Uncategorised
After three years’ really hard work to develop our project proposals and raise over a quarter of a million pounds of matched funding, we are absolutely delighted that the National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded us a grant of up to £642,500 which will enable...
by Andrew Lambourne | Oct 16, 2019 | Uncategorised
Visitors to St Leonard’s Church during Flamstead’s Autumn Fayre will have encountered a scarecrow group of 13th century stonemasons busy going about the task of widening the building – and encouraging the 21st century onlookers to lend a hand! This...
by Andrew Lambourne | Aug 3, 2019 | Uncategorised
I’m not the first, and I won’t be the last, to fall under the spell of St Leonard’s Church – that wonderful, craggy, 900-year-old assembly of stones, bricks, glass, wood, lead and copper sat there in the middle of our churchyard. Through being...
by Andrew Lambourne | Oct 23, 2018 | Uncategorised
We’re delighted that St Leonard’s Church Flamstead has received initial National Lottery support* for the Development phase of its “Living Histories, Lasting Journeys” project. It’s a tremendous encouragement to all those who have worked so hard over the...
