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H. Martin Stuchfield, M.B.E.,
J.P., D.L., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S..
Appointed a Trustee in 1999 and Chairman in 2006.
Martin is a retired businessman and a trustee of numerous registered charities concerned with heritage, history and archaeology.
He is the co-author of the County Series established in 1992 to publish a comprehensively illustrated list of monumental brasses, indents and lost brasses in the United Kingdom. He is a Vice-President of the Monumental Brass Society having served as President (2011-22) and Hon. Secretary (1994-2007 and 2009-11). He is also the Society’s Conservation Officer and is a consultant on monumental brasses to the Chelmsford, Norwich and St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich Diocesan Advisory Committees (‘D.A.C.’).
He is a Vice-President of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History having served as President (2008-11) and is Chairman of the Friends of Essex Churches Trust. He is a former Chairman of the Victoria County History of Essex Trust.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2000 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2014 Birthday Honours List for services to Heritage, Charity and the Community in Essex. He was also appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Essex and a member of the Court of the University of Essex in 2015.
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Matthew J. Saunders, M.B.E.,
M.A., F.S.A.
Appointed a Trustee in 2008.
Matthew is a member of the Historic England Advisory Committee
and the Diocesan Advisory Committee for London and is a member
of the Church Buildings Council. He has written extensively on architectural history and conservation - particularly churches. He is a Vice-President of the Ecclesiological Society.
He was Secretary of the Ancient Monuments Society (1977-2018) and Director of The Friends of Friendless Churches (1993-2018). He was a Trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the
National Heritage Memorial Fund (2005-11).
He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1987. He was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1997 New Year’s Honours List for
services to the Ancient Monuments Society
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Rev. Brian H. Wilcox
Appointed a Trustee in 1988.
Brian was ordained in the Diocese of Peterborough in 1973 and was Curate
at St. Peter and St. Paul, Kettering (Northamptonshire). He was appointed Vicar of Eye (Cambridgeshire) in 1978 and subsequently became Rector of Clipston, Naseby, Kelmarsh and Haselbech (Northamptonshire).
He was also a member of the Peterborough D.A.C. He was Vicar of Hornsea with Atwick in the East Riding (Yorkshire) and served on the York D.A.C. from 1990-7. From 1997 he was Rector of Uckfield, Isfield and Horsted Parva (Sussex) in the Diocese of Chichester and served on the D.A.C. until he retired in 2011.
He is responsible for the technical aspects of applications. |
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Pamela J. Ward, B.A.(Arch.)
Appointed a Trustee in 2015.
Pam is a retired chartered architect who has run her own practice since 1982 specialising in churches and historic buildings. She is an Honorary Life member of the
Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors
Association (E.A.S.A.) having been a Past-President and a member since 1980. She has been a member of the St. Albans D.A.C. since 2004.
She is a founder member of the
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Historic
Churches Trust and is currently a Trustee
of Whipsnade Tree Cathedral (National Trust)
and a member of Whipsnade P.C.C. and
Whipsnade Village Hall committee. |
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John Barker, M.R.I.C.S.
Appointed a Trustee in 2021.
John has practised as a chartered
building surveyor specialising as an ecclesiastical and historic buildings consultant for a considerable number of years and has been involved with work on over 160 churches and chapels.
He gained conservation accreditation status through the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has been involved with quinquennial inspections of churches in the Dioceses of Peterborough and St. Albans over a significant period of time.
He has been recipient of national awards including the King of Prussia’s Gold Medal Award for greatest aesthetic and technical challenge in a scheme for church repair, and surveyor to a project which won the John Benjamin Memorial Award for exemplary repairs to churches.
He was formally a consultant surveyor to the Churches Conservation Trust dealing with redundant churches in various counties.
He is a member of the Peterborough Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches, and Trustee and Vice-Chairman of the Northamptonshire Historic Churches Trust. |
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