The purpose of the Warwickshire and Coventry Historic Churches Trust is the ‘preservation, improvement, reconstruction, beautification, repair and renovation of Christian places of worship’.

National Patron

  • His Majesty The  King

County Patrons

  • The Lord Bishop of Coventry
  • His Grace Archbishop of Birmingham
  • The Moderator of The West Midlands Province
 of the United Reform Church
  • The Lord Lieutenant Timothy Cox
  • Dame Judi Dench
  • Sir Martin Dunne KVCO
  • Michael Fetherstone Dilke
  • 
Bridget Herrtage
  • Lady Willoughby de Broke

Trustees

Trustees meet several times a year to review applications, agree grants and to plan for fundraising events. Three of our Trustees are conservation architects who support the work of the Trust in a number of ways, including visiting churches applying for grants and advising on, for example, the suitability of proposed materials and the viability of projects.

  • Steven Matthews (Chair)
  • Canon Jim Canning
  • Canon Edward Stewart
  • Claire Strachan
  • Angela Everitt (Treasurer)
  • Dr Charles Brown (Consultant Architect)

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