This proven approach is already used in churches like Kenardington, Berwick, Tenterden, and St Clements Hastings.It will enable greater climate stability within the church, from which the building and its fittings will benefit. Experts in heating heritage buildings considered carefully all options and this is the best solution for this church, and how it is used.
Under floor pipes are corroding and starting to break and the cost of repeat repeatedly lifting parts of flooring to mend them is prohibitive.<br><br>“How <a></a>does this support the Church's wider mission?”The Church of England is committed to achieving net.zero carbon emissions by 2030. We have a responsibility to care for God's creation, making our present gas system unsuitable.
Our churchyard could be one of the most ancient enclosed pieces of land in Wadhurst. Thegrassland has been relatively undisturbed, re-seeding naturally for hundreds if not thousands of years. It will also have been both mown for hay and grazed by animals during its time as a burial ground.A benefit of this continuity of management over a very long time is a rich diversity of grasses, flowers and animals. This old unimproved grassland was once widespread in the UK but is now rare. Since the 1940s over 97% has vanished. Most burial grounds pre-date the 1940s so are now some of the few places it remains – because they have not been artificially fertilised, treated with herbicides or ploughed. As a church, and with the help of volunteers, we are now actively managing the site, grass cuttings are raked up and removed regularly.
