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Bethesda Methodist Chapel, Hanley,
Stoke-on-Trent

Biddlestone RC Chapel, near Netherton, Northumberland

Coanwood Friends Meeting House, near Haltwhistle, Northumberland

Baptist Chapel, Cote, Oxfordshire

The Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London

Friends Meeting House, Farfield, near Addingham, West Yorkshire

Longworth RC Chapel, Bartestree, Herefordshire

Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackpool, Lancashire

 

 

The Historic Chapels Trust

Sir Hugh Rossi – Honorary President

Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith, MP – Chairman
Member of Parliament for Berwick-on-Tweed since 1973. Former Chairman, Council of Europe's Sub-Committee on the Artistic and Architectural Heritage. Methodist local preacher. Formerly elder in the United Reformed Church.

Professor Clyde Binfield, OBE
Historian. Emeritus Professor in History, University of Sheffield. Publications include James Cubitt (1836–1912) – the Contexting of a Victorian Architect (Chapels Society 2001). Elder and lay preacher, United Reformed Church. Currently President United Reformed Church History Society. Past President, the Chapels Society, the Ecclesiastical History Society. Trustee, Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust, Chairman, Fabric Advisory Committee, Wakefield Cathedral.

Neil Burton, BA (Hons), FSA
Architectural historian. Director of the Architectural History Practice. Former Secretary, Georgian Group, 1994–2001. Previously an officer with the Greater London Council Historic Buildings Division and English Heritage. Author of English Heritage leaflet, New Works in Historic Churches and several books and articles on building history and conservation.

James H Gregory, BA (Hons)
Practising barrister on the Northern Circuit. Long-standing chair of local regeneration initiative. Particular interest in restoration and subsequent public use of buildings of quality. Active supporter of environmental charities. Wide experience of property issues as trustee of property syndicates.

Christina van Melze
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Trustee and elder of her local Quaker Meeting. Trustee, Suffolk Historic Churches Trust and representative for the Nonconformist churches on their grants committee since 1989. Former secretary, Chapels Society (1992–2000) and Secretary to the Organising Committee, Walpole Old Chapel since 1994.

Lord (Andrew) Mawson OBE
Independent crossbench peer. Founder and President of Bromley-by-Bow Centre, Co-Founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN). Minister in the Baptist and United Reformed Churches for 25 years. Member of Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, 2002–04. Leader, motivator and adviser to a number of major projects including Water City (a visionary plan to revitalise East London and a vehicle for true Olympic legacy utilising the forgotten waterways of the area) and One Church, 100 Uses, a newly established agency of the United Reformed church that brings new life to church buildings no longer needed for worship.

Oliver Pearcey BSc IHBC
Historic environment consultant. Former Director of Conservation at English Heritage. Previously employed in Department of the Environment whence he was seconded to the Greater London Council. Chairman/Trustee of several charities.

Lord (David) Shutt of Greetland OBE FCA

Chartered accountant. Former councillor (1973–2003). Member of the House of Lords. Trustee of Pennine Heritage and a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Christopher Stell, OBE

Architectural investigator with the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) 1955–89; Consultant from 1989. Authority on the architecture of Nonconformist chapels. Author of Inventories of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England (HMSO, 1986), in South West England (1991), in the North of England (1994); in Eastern England (2002). Hon Secretary, Chapels Society,1989–92, Hon Editor, 1992–94, President, 2001–04. Member of the Listed Building Advisory Panel of the Methodist Church 1994–98, of the Baptist Union, 1998–2002. Hon Secretary, Ancient Monuments Society from 1988. Hon
Vice-President, Royal Archaeological Institute from 1988.

Dr Jennifer M Freeman, Hon D Arts, Dipl Cons (AA), IHBC, FRSA, FSA – Director
Architectural historian, writer, developer of historic buildings and HCT's first Director, from 1993. Chairman, Freeman Historic Properties Ltd President, Kettering Civic Society. President, Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, Chairman of Fabric Committee. Trustee, Heritage Link, Building Crafts and Conservation Trust. Committee member, Save Britain's Heritage since 1977. Former Secretary, Victorian Society. Former member, Council for the Care of Churches. London Committee of English Heritage. Author W D Caroe, Co-author Save the City: a Conservation Study of the City of London, Kensal Green Cemetery.

Anthony Rossi, CBE, Dip Arch, Dip Con Studies (York) RIBA – Architectural Consultant
Architect now retired from small private practice in Norfolk specializing in historic buildings including churches, chapels, work for historic buildings trusts and the National Trust. Previous posts included historic buildings advisor to Derbyshire County Council and conservation architect with Norwich City Council, architect to the Roman Catholic Cathedral of East Anglia and Chairman of the Sub-Committee for Church Patrimony of the Catholic Bishops' Conference. Deputy Chairman of the Ancient Monuments Society and Chairman of their casework sub-committee.

Penrose Methodist Chapel, St Ervan, Cornwall

St George's German Lutheran Church, Tower Hamlets, London

Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon

Unitarian Church, Todmorden, West Yorkshire

Umberslade Baptist Church, Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire

Wainsgate Baptist Church, near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

Unitarian Church, Wallasey, Merseyside

Walpole Old Chapel, Walpole, Suffolk

 

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email: chapels@hct.org.uk

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Director
Dr Jennifer M Freeman