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The Conservation and Repair of Ecclesiastical Buildings, 32nd Annual Edition (2025/26)

As a category, places of worship includes an extremely high proportion of the UK’s grade I and category A listed buildings and most of our oldest ones. Moreover, these buildings have been ornamented by the greatest artists of their period, from sculptors and carvers of wood and stone, to the painters and decorators of ceilings, panels, murals and stained glass windows.

However, as the resources of congregations continue to decline, it is also the most threatened category, and the number of closures is set to rise sharply.

Historic Churches magazine celebrates this heritage of ecclesiastical art and architecture, promotes its conservation, and publicises developments in the fight to keep the UK’s historic places of worship open and cared for.

Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, the 32nd edition of Historic Churches will be of interest to all who are involved in the maintenance and conservation of places of worship and their memorials, or who have an interest in this precious legacy.

A digital 'flipping book' version is available here free of charge, or order a printed copy below.

Articles in the 32nd edition

NEWS REVIEW
New publisher for Historic Churches
The National Churches Survey 2025
Solar panel installations
HSE's lead safety review
Underfloor heating between joists at St Paul's Covent Garden
End of the road for the LPoW Grant Scheme

TIN TABERNACLES AND THEIR INTERIORS
Michael Hill-King

RISING FROM THE ASHES
The cleaning and restoration of Notre-Dame, Paris
Jonathan Taylor and Joanna Collie

NORTHERN IRELAND’S TREASURED CHURCH HERITAGE
Sarah Crossland

CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS
Just how vulnerable are our churches?
Morwenna Slade
DOUGLAS STRACHAN
Genius of the Scottish Arts & Crafts
Rona Moody

CLOSING THE SKILLS GAP
How Craft Fellows are learning to create and conserve Scottish stained glass
Amy Styles, Aaron Morrison and Gordon Muir

PUGIN IN COLOUR
Painted decoration in the religious interiors
of AW Pugin
Ana Logreira

Historic Churches 32nd edition (2025/26)

Historic Churches 31st edition (2024/25)

Historic Churches 30th edition (2023)

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