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Restore

Engage

Re-invigorate

By the time you read this, our bid to
the National Lottery Heritage Fund
(NLHF) will have been submitted. It
can be summarised in three words -
Restore, Engage, Re-invigorate.

The restoration component focuses

on the Great East Window and the
Commandments Window. It is 150
years since they were last restored, so St Laurence’s will be joining the rest of
works here are well overdue. The the country in celebrating the Platinum
Conservation Trust has kindly agreed to Jubilee in June.
help with match-funding this element. On Saturday 4 June world-renowned

Engagement centres on reaching out organist Thomas Trotter will make a

to areas of the population who are return visit to play our famous
currently under-represented amongst Schnetzler organ in a gala recital, to be
those access our magnificent heritage, followed by a performance by the new
namely those with disabilities and the Academy of St Laurence and the
younger demographic. This is of musical tribute will be rounded off by a
particular importance in terms of the quarter peal of bell-ringing.

project outcomes that NLHF are On Sunday 5 June the church
expecting. For those with impaired community will gather for a celebratory
mobility, proposed changes include lunch, to be held outdoors if weather
remodelling the choir stalls and nave permits, otherwise in the church, with a
dais, to include ramp access to the special Choral Evensong to give thanks

chancel and chapels. For young people for the Queen’s 70 years of service.
we shall engage their interest by making Further details will be announced in the
extensive use of augmented reality next few months.
technology, bringing to life history as
depicted in the stained glass on their
smart phones and providing a wide
range of educational activities.

We shall also be working closely with
Ludlow Castle, town centre heritage
and Stokesay Castle to provide a joined
-up approach to heritage engagement in Misericord in the chancel of St Laurence
and around Ludlow, with St Laurence’s commemorating the Queen’s 90th birthday
as the major focus.

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