Scotland's Churches Trust

About

Scotland’s Churches Trust is an independent built-heritage charity dedicated to protecting, preserving and promoting Scotland’s unique inheritance of religious architecture. We support and advocate on behalf of the congregations and communities who sustain and maintain current and former places of worship, helping to safeguard these historic buildings and the stories, traditions and local identities that they embody. Alongside practical advice on routine maintenance, historical interpretation and community engagement, we also provide a national online directory that signposts tens of thousands of visitors each year to places of worship across Scotland. In recent years, as denominations make difficult decisions about their properties, we have also been assisting communities seeking to take on these closure-threatened buildings, developing as part of this activity an award-winning rapid-recording methodology to document quickly the fragile heritage contained within each site.

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