On these tours, supporters and friends will follow a pre-araanged route to visit some of the county's finest churches, at each of which there will be talks (and even tea & biscuits...).
The first stop on the tour was at Statfold, a small and ancient family chapel usually closed to the general public. The place was full to capacity for the talk.
The final stop on this four-church tour was at St Peter's in Elford, a very large church. And it had to be - because by this time the members of the tour had swelled to something like 200 people...
It just shows (I hope) the desire in the county to preserve our most amazing churches.
Link: Staffordshire Historic Churches Trust (And it's very cheap to join the SCHT!)
What a wonderful idea to do this. I've heard of having 'open gardens' but not churches. As you know there are some fantastic and very historical churches dotted all over the UK, and if it helps to preserve them, all the better. But I wonder just how many went to look and will never contribute!
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