Reference
P12/2/2/14
Title
Correspondence regarding the church restoration appeal
Date free text
1974-1980
Production date
From: 1974 To: 1980
Scope and Content
including:
-unsuccessful correspondence regarding possible loan from Historic Churches Preservation Trust [1974-1975];
-emptying of Annual Gift Day boxes with names and addresses of those having them [1975];
-statement showing sources and applications of the Restoration Fund [1975];
-letter from zoo keeper and television personality Johnny Morris declining to help with fund raising due to commitments [c.1975];
-circular letter regarding the need for £10,000 over five years [1974];
-ideas for fund raising [1974];
-leaflet Flitton Parish Church - Ruin or Reality? outlining two problems – repair to stonework on the nave and chancel and whether it was right to spend a large amount of money on a building that was “so little used” [c.1975];
-letter from A.R.Lucas allowing the De Grey Mausoleum to be used for the church Flower Festival and expressing hope that the Department of the Environment would soon take over the ownership [1975];
-programme for An Evening with actress Jennie Linden supported by the Ionian Singers in aid of the restoration fund [1976];
-correspondence with St.Albans Diocesan Board of Finance regarding a grant for restoration [1975];
-letter to chairman of Tricentrol Industrial Holdings Limited asking for contribution [1976];
-letter to G.Guest of St.John’s College, Cambridge asking him to do an organ recital for “Flitton 1976” [1975];
-income and expenditure account for the Restoration Fund [1975];
-letter accompanying donation of £100 from Balliol College, Oxford, patrons of the living [1976];
-Restoration Fund financial report [1977];
-Letter to Historic Buildings Council for England regarding possible grant [1977];
-Income and expenditure account for Restoration Fund [1977];
-Letter noting a grant from Department of Environment for £5,468 [1978];
-Correspondence re repayment of £750 interest free loan from Historic Churches Preservation Trust [1980]
Reference
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