Cadeby All Saints' Church Roof Appeal

UPDATE:

Work was completed in October 2014.

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UPDATE:

Sufficient money was raised to enable the work to go ahead and contractors are due to begin work on site in April 2014.

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ENGLISH HERITAGE and the Heritage Lottery Fund have offered a grant of £95,000 to help repair the roof of Cadeby's historic parish church.

The roof of All Saints, which dates from the 13th century, is in such a bad condition that holes are letting in water and causing plaster to fall inside.

A church support group, formed last year, has been working with a conservation architect to draw up a project to re-tile the roof, replace its wooden battens and re-plaster the ceiling inside.

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The total cost of the project, which has been approved by English Heritage, is estimated at about £189,000.

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Cadeby Church Support Group leader and project co-ordinator Diana Morgan, who is a licensed lay Reader and member of the Market Bosworth benefice ministry team, said: "We are delighted that English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund have agreed to help us in this way.

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"Their grant is very generous but it still means we have a lot of money to raise, so we are asking everyone who cares about Cadeby Church to do what they can to help us meet our target."

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The grant leaves the church with a shortfall of £94,000 and the support group has been given until December to prove that it can raise that much, if the full amount of money offered by English Heritage and the HLF is to be released.

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A bequest of £30,000 has been given towards the work and the church's own fabric fund of £14,000 will be used.

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That leaves £50,000 more to find before Christmas.

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The support group is applying to grant giving organisations and charities, including Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, for help but is hoping that parishioners, local businesses and people who have connections with Cadeby will be willing to make donations towards the cause.