Category: Updates

We submitted our Round 2 Heritage Grant/Lottery application on 26th May 2021. We are due to hear the results of that in September 2021

We completed our tender for the Main Works in April 2021 and our Preferred Contractor is Ellis and Co subject to us securing all our funding. Our programme assumes our works will start in late March 2022  

We started our public appeal in the last week of February and appeal leaflets have been delivered to all households in East Harptree, West Harptree and Hinton Blewitt. The closing date is 30th April.

We launched our formal tender for the proposed works on 26th February. Responses are due in early April

Bath and North East Somerset Council have now confirmed that the conditions attaching to the Planning Approval granted in April 2020 have now been discharged

On 15th October 2020 we received our faculties for both the main works and the proposed interpretation. A major milestone. Now the hard work of applying to many grant giving organisations can begin with a public appeal being launched early in January

A Connection between East Harptree and the Novelist Jane Austen by Jo Brown   July 10, 1791 MY DEAR MRS. FIELDING,  After having wrote to you so lately you will be no doubt surprized at hearing again so soon, and not less so to find that the Cause is to inform you that we have…

We were granted planning permission for all the external and external facing works on 9th April and on the same date Advertisement consent for the proposed new noticeboard was granted

A sample of the photographs unearthed by the Harptrees History Society

The Harptrees History have recently discovered a series of images of the interior and exterior of the church and of its surroundings and of the wider village. Attached is a particularly good one showing what the east end of the chancel of St Laurence looked like when the original Victorian decoration was all there. And…