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Tending and Curating
Our inheritance and legacy
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Interpreting your historic church building
Watch this video to learn about the different features of a church building and what to look out for. This will show you the outside and inside of a church building and its churchyard. Gain inspiration to explore your church more thoroughly and think about how you can make the stories available to visitors. This is for anyone interested in church buildings, those who care for them and those who want to know more about what you have.
By watching this 25 minute video you will get an understanding of what features and evidence to look for to ‘read’ your church building and see how it has developed over the centuries.
This video covers the following items:
- Architectural development
- The interior fabric
- Pews
- Fonts
- Monuments
- Sedilia and piscina
- Lost features such as the Rood screen
By the end of this video and using the downloadable architectural guide and booklist you will be able to piece together the history of your church building and amaze your family and friends with your new architectural knowledge.
This video was produced as part of a project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund Inspiring Ideas grant stream. For other resources from the same project, see the following links: