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THE ARTS SOCIETY VOLUNTEERING - CHURCH RECORDING

TAS South East Suffolk joins with members from TAS Woodbridge and AS Supporters in recording our current Church of All Saints, Kesgrave IP5 1AA.

We meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday and 3rd Friday of the month 10am to 12pm, from April to October.

We welcome new members. If you are interested in learning more, please email me at info@tassoutheastsuffolk.org.uk 

 

Church Recorders work in groups to research all the content, windows, stonework and significant objects in the church, to write a sophisticated and accurate description of them, accompanied by many photographs.

The completed record is presented to the Church. It also goes to the V&A art Library, Church Care and the local record office, for us to The Hold home of the Suffolk archives in Ipswich.

 

 

Affiliated to the Church Recording Society

We have started our new Recording project at St Peter's Church, Levington IP10 0LQ We meet from 10 am to 12 pm on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month.   

The completed St Mary's Church, Woodbridge  Record was presented at the Church on Sunday 17th March 2024.

New members welcome

To join or learn more Email: southeastsuffolk@theartssociety.org

 

The Marsh Award for volunteering with the Church Recording Society.

Congratulations to all our Church Recorders who as a group with Woodbridge and Orwell were  presented with a Group Marsh Award of £750 in September 2022. This national award acknowledges the dedication of our Church Recorders and the difference they are making within the wider community. There are over 800 volunteers attached to more than 80 Church Recording Groups nationally and only 1 Group Award. It is quite an achievement and is of course, down to past and present members, as well as to the support of all three societies. A special thank you to Julia Leigh Smith from TAS Woodbridge who coordinates our Group and Sue Medcalf from the Church Recording Society who made the nomination.

The Marsh Charitable Trust supports organisations and volunteers across the charity sector through its Awards Scheme and Grants Programme.

I encourage you to look at the Marsh Charitable Trust website to discover more:

www.marshcharitabletrust.org

 

    

As from 1st January 2021 the ownership and management, at national level, of church recording has passed to a newly created charity, the Church Recording Society. Church recording groups, such as ours, are now “volunteering” groups within their local TAS. The CRS is now the coordinating national body providing resources, guidance and support as needed by local groups. Such groups can now be said to be “affiliated” to CRS.

It is intended that Church Recording will be promoted more nationally. Completed records will continue to be deposited with the V & A, Church Care, the local Diocesan Record Office and of course with the relevant Church. It is hoped that recording groups will continue to be supported by their local Societies, not just in covering the cost of the production of the final Records but also with their encouragement and interest in the activity and their participating members.

Church Recording volunteers have been carefully recording the contents of Churches for more than 45 years. Since 1973 dedicated Recorders have documented 2,000 Churches, and there is still have a long way to go. Volunteers currently total well over 2,000 individuals making up 170 groups across the UK and abroad.

Churches house important treasures and display a huge wealth of human creativity. Volunteering groups examine the metalwork, sculpture, woodwork, stonework, textiles, paintings, manuscripts, memorials and windows in each Church.

The importance of the work is recognised by the fact that copies of the Record are deposited with Historic England, the V&A Art Library, the Church Care Library and the local Record Office, for us, in Ipswich.

TAS South East Suffolk members join with members from the Woodbridge and Orwell Societies and with some Supporting members. We meet in the current Church at 10 am for two hours on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month from April to October.

                                                                                            

The Church of St Mary and St Peter, Barham. Our completed Record was presented to the congregation on  Sunday 8th September 2019. Image shows the Church Recorders at Barham Church presenting the three volumns of the finished Record.

 

 

 

THE ARTS SOCIETY VOLUNTEERING - CHURCH RECORDING

TAS South East Suffolk joins with members from TAS Woodbridge and AS Supporters in recording our current Church of All Saints, Kesgrave IP5 1AA.

We meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday and 3rd Friday of the month 10am to 12pm, from April to October.

We welcome new members. If you are interested in learning more, please email me at info@tassoutheastsuffolk.org.uk 

 

Church Recorders work in groups to research all the content, windows, stonework and significant objects in the church, to write a sophisticated and accurate description of them, accompanied by many photographs.

The completed record is presented to the Church. It also goes to the V&A art Library, Church Care and the local record office, for us to The Hold home of the Suffolk archives in Ipswich.

 

 

Affiliated to the Church Recording Society

We have started our new Recording project at St Peter's Church, Levington IP10 0LQ We meet from 10 am to 12 pm on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month.   

The completed St Mary's Church, Woodbridge  Record was presented at the Church on Sunday 17th March 2024.

New members welcome

To join or learn more Email: southeastsuffolk@theartssociety.org

 

The Marsh Award for volunteering with the Church Recording Society.

Congratulations to all our Church Recorders who as a group with Woodbridge and Orwell were  presented with a Group Marsh Award of £750 in September 2022. This national award acknowledges the dedication of our Church Recorders and the difference they are making within the wider community. There are over 800 volunteers attached to more than 80 Church Recording Groups nationally and only 1 Group Award. It is quite an achievement and is of course, down to past and present members, as well as to the support of all three societies. A special thank you to Julia Leigh Smith from TAS Woodbridge who coordinates our Group and Sue Medcalf from the Church Recording Society who made the nomination.

The Marsh Charitable Trust supports organisations and volunteers across the charity sector through its Awards Scheme and Grants Programme.

I encourage you to look at the Marsh Charitable Trust website to discover more:

www.marshcharitabletrust.org

 

    

As from 1st January 2021 the ownership and management, at national level, of church recording has passed to a newly created charity, the Church Recording Society. Church recording groups, such as ours, are now “volunteering” groups within their local TAS. The CRS is now the coordinating national body providing resources, guidance and support as needed by local groups. Such groups can now be said to be “affiliated” to CRS.

It is intended that Church Recording will be promoted more nationally. Completed records will continue to be deposited with the V & A, Church Care, the local Diocesan Record Office and of course with the relevant Church. It is hoped that recording groups will continue to be supported by their local Societies, not just in covering the cost of the production of the final Records but also with their encouragement and interest in the activity and their participating members.

Church Recording volunteers have been carefully recording the contents of Churches for more than 45 years. Since 1973 dedicated Recorders have documented 2,000 Churches, and there is still have a long way to go. Volunteers currently total well over 2,000 individuals making up 170 groups across the UK and abroad.

Churches house important treasures and display a huge wealth of human creativity. Volunteering groups examine the metalwork, sculpture, woodwork, stonework, textiles, paintings, manuscripts, memorials and windows in each Church.

The importance of the work is recognised by the fact that copies of the Record are deposited with Historic England, the V&A Art Library, the Church Care Library and the local Record Office, for us, in Ipswich.

TAS South East Suffolk members join with members from the Woodbridge and Orwell Societies and with some Supporting members. We meet in the current Church at 10 am for two hours on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month from April to October.

                                                                                            

The Church of St Mary and St Peter, Barham. Our completed Record was presented to the congregation on  Sunday 8th September 2019. Image shows the Church Recorders at Barham Church presenting the three volumns of the finished Record.