Category Archives: News

The National Churches Trust (NCT) is offering free surgeries with support and advice for dealing with specific issues relating to the care of churches, chapels and meeting houses via Skype.  The sessions are aimed at people involved in general church care … Continue reading →

English Heritage has published a new 5-year strategy designed to: promote the value of places of worship support the communities that look after them support creative and viable ways of using places of worship to improve their sustainability A copy of … Continue reading →

Various talks and activities are taking place in and around chapels in Wales as part of the Open Doors festival this month. Find out more on the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales blog.

Launched in March 2013 by the National Funding Scheme (NFS) and now available across the UK, DONATE has been created to allow everyone to be part of our cultural diversity and heritage. DONATE makes it easy for people to give to … Continue reading →

‘My Methodist History‘, the online community archive network set up by Methodist Heritage, is running a project to record all war memorials in Methodist churches. Volunteers are being asked to photograph memorials and then upload details to the web. Details about the project can … Continue reading →

‘Virtual Chapels of Wales’ is the name of a planned new online museum and archive. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and Addoldai Cymru (The Welsh Religious Buildings Trust) have secured a £60,000 grant for the development … Continue reading →

News has reached us of the tragic gutting of the interior of the former Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Chapel on Midland Road, Bristol. This unlisted chapel is also at immediate risk of total demolition. The Society in 2011 had previously contributed to … Continue reading →

A new book edited by member Martin Wellings has just been published… Protestant Nonconformity and Christian Missions The aim of the book is to explore some of the contributions made by Protestant Nonconformity to Christian missions. The occasion of the … Continue reading →

The Society is very sad to share the news of the recent death of Christopher Stell, aged 84. Christopher was a founding member of the Chapels Society and was internationally respected for his four volume Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and … Continue reading →