70th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving

70 years on from the Inaugural Trust Service in Salisbury Cathedral
on 1st June 1954

A magnificent evening service in Malmesbury Abbey on 16th June 2024

Hosted and led by Rev Oliver Ross, Vicar of Malmesbury and attended by the President of the Trust, Mrs Sarah Troughton HM Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, the Duke of Somerset, Bishops of Bristol, Clifton, Swindon and Ramsbury, Rev Nigel Coles, West of England Baptist Association, Rev Robert Jordan, Swindon URC Synod and Rev Jonathan Pye, Methodist Church Regional District, Trustees and Officers of the Trust and Friends of Wiltshire Churches

The Bishop of Bristol preached the Sermon

70th Anniversary Grants

In celebration of the Trust’s 70th Anniversary, Trustees have awarded three additional special 70th Anniversary Grants totalling £100,000 to places of worship selected from church and chapel applications in 2023

Mark Everall, Chairman of Trustees said:
Wiltshire is fortunate to have a wide variety of beautiful churches and chapels of national and international historic and architectural significance that are at the heart of our local communities. As the Trust celebrates its 70th Anniversary of supporting places of worship with much-needed grants to help with repairs and modernisation, Trustees decided that three special grants should be made. Over and above the annual 2023 contribution of the Trust to 40 churches and chapels of all denominations, in its 70th year the Trust has granted an additional £100,000 to help with the most significant applications. 

Photographs Copywright – Brian Woodruffe