by editor | Oct 12, 2022 | Blog
Come and find out about the year long building works that repaired the nave roof and much more besides. Along with all the other work carried out before and since, St Leonard’s has indeed been saved. This will be explained in a talk, together with the plans for...
by editor | Mar 16, 2022 | Blog
It has been wonderful seeing St Leonard’s being used for community events again. Last week it was the Young Person’s Puppet Theatre and “The Spirit of St Leonards”. It told the story of a young girl who travelled through nine centuries of church and village history....
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 | Sep 10, 2017 | Blog
The big question for most church fundraising groups is likely to be “how do we raise THAT much?!” 90% of rural churches are listed buildings, so it’s probably a nationwide nightmare. This blog describes our struggle to solve a major fundraising...