. · • Limekilns Parish Church - Building Project • · .

The Building Project Steering Group Members:

Limekilns Church Building
Limekilns Church
  • Morag Angus
  • Peter Dreyer
  • Sue Hamilton (Secretary)
  • James Lamont
  • Tom Murdoch
  • Elaine Souter

Ex officio members

  • Norman Grant
  • Dave Souter
  • Charlie Stoddart.

building project update

Folks it is a while since we gave you an update on our project to revitalise the church so here is a brief paper to give you the latest. While there may not seem to be much to show at the moment, a lot has been going on to move our project forward.

so far...

  1. Our Architect, David Murdoch has agreed plans with the Steering Group and submitted these for Planning Approval with Fife Council. You may have seen the Planning Application details in the press recently. We expect to hear back from them by early in the New Year.
  2. Having submitted a very large request for financial support from Heritage Lottery Fund (over £200,000), they requested that we appoint a specialist architect for all Conservation work. Our fundraiser, June Denton, carried out a lot of research and ground work to deal with this and we now have Tom Morton on board from ARC architects in Cupar who will be responsible to David Murdoch for Conservation elements of our work. Hopefully, this will satisfy HLF and Historic Scotland.
  3. Lord Elgin, as patron of our project has written personally to a number of individual trusts with whom he has a close contact and we are very optimistic of a positive outcome from these.
  4. We now wait - economic times are tough and charitable trusts are finding things tough too so incoming funds are slow. We are still very optimistic of success though as is June Denton and her VThree colleagues.
  5. We are not sitting back doing nothing though; Paul Denton has been working with us to produce Church Christmas Cards and calendars so I hope you will support our little fundraiser.
  6. Copies of the two main drawings are attached and of course any of the Steering Group would be delighted to talk to you about the project at any time.

plans

I have uploaded plans of the proposed changes. These plans are detailed and have links at the left side which enable parts to be removed so that other parts can be seen more easily. Have a look around using the links below.

If you want more information then please contact:

Church Office
Telephone 01383 873337, or

Charlie Stoddart, Session Clerk
Telephone 01383 872210, or

As the project progresses we will keep you informed. This website will be a key source of information as will the church office. The quarterly magazine too will have articles about the work.

Thank you for your support to date and all the good wishes we have received from far and wide.