Region: London
Local Authority: Camden
Owner Type: Religious Organisation
Funding Body: English Heritage
Summary: St Stephen's Rosslyn Hill: Reviving a Major Hampstead Landmark and putting it back into public use.
Description: The impressive bulk of the Grade I listed St Stephen’s church on Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, has been standing unused for almost 25 years.
Issue: It has arguably been London’s most infamous building at risk.
Strategy: Now thanks to a £400,000 grant from English Heritage and funding from other conservation bodies, St Stephen’s church will be given a new life as a teaching space, a lifelong learning centre and home to the Children’s Museum (an art facility specialising in providing art-based therapy teaching for children). Leading the project is St Stephen’s Restoration and Preservation Trust, who have leased the church from the Diocese with a very specific objective: “to restore, protect and preserve the property for the benefit of the public….. for the purposes of education and for the benefit of the community of Hampstead”.
Outcome: With a total cost of almost £3.5 million, work is proceeding in phases, with new uses being introduced as the work and fund-raising continues. The Trust will be seeking support from the Heritage Lottery Fund to add to the funding received from English Heritage.
Keywords:
Education and Outreach, Funding, Repair, Reconstruction & Restoration
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