Projects

In 2024, the 145 year old tomb of former Curate Reverend Richard Andrew Hancock was restored with funding from the Trust.

Vegetation was cleared and railings were restored with the help of contractor Eastwell Ironworks from New Romney.

In 2024 Fairfield church was redecorated by BE Ames Ltd., with funding from the Trust.

The paint work had been looking very tired in places and the walls looked very patchy. A grant from RMHCT enabled restoration back to glory.

Placed on Heritage England’s “At Risk” register, the 550 year old west window has required complete restoration. Such a restoration is an unprecedented undertaking within the Diocese of Canterbury.

The project to restore eight, mainly 18th century, tombs in the churchyard at St Augustine’s, Brookland was completed successfully in 2018.

A maintenance project to irradicate Death Watch Beetle from the timbers at St Mary the Virgin’s Church led to the unfortunate discovery of further problems. Work was carried out to repair woodwork, replace the spire shingles and re-gild the weather vane. In follow-on work, pews were also repaired.

The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust has supported an Arts Council music and heritage project which involves nine churches in the local region, including four on Romney Marsh.

St Augustine's at Snave was declared redundant in 1983 after which the Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust intervened to stop a change to secular use. It is the only redundant church on the Marsh. The church is now entirely maintained by the Trust.

Funded by Arts Council England and New Romney Town Council, the Trust was a collaborator for the New Romney community obelisk, which involved workshops in local historic churches. From the same artists behind The Marsh Mosaics, the project involved the creation of a community mosaic sculpture for the town of New Romney, inspired by the heritage of the town. Saint Nicholas’ Church is featured prominently in the design, helping to help raise awareness of this unique church and its history.

In collaboration with the Fifth Continent Landscape Partnership Scheme, local people took part in community workshops to create 14 new mosaic artworks, inspired by the heritage and wildlife of Romney Marsh. Each mosaic features one of the marsh’s medieval churches, capturing historic themes, folklore and landscape features from the marsh villages and towns. The mosaics are on display in each of the medieval churches on the marsh.

Working in partnership with the Fifth Continent Landscape Partnership Scheme, the Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust has developed an exciting new educational resource for the medieval churches on the marsh – a new self-guided tour app. Learn about the history, features and folklore of these unique buildings - the app includes a highlights tour, covering all 14 churches on the marsh, as well as detailed tours for each individual church.

Essentially this work consisted of re-tiling the complete south aisle, routing the rainwater drains away from the building and rebuilding the west window of the south aisle.

Work has started on repairs required under the Quinquennial report being repairing internal wall, plaster and mould and repainting plus work to exterior drainage and windows.

Refurbishment of west window in south aisle.