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Greening the Minster - Good News
30/08/2024
 The Minster Development Plan targets several key areas
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Greening the churchyard to promote biodiversity and to encourage community use. This includes ‘talking’ seating, a limestone circular performance and meeting area, a more welcoming southern entry to the churchyard, phased and interlinking biodiverse spaces, a pond area and ‘heritage digital engagement’
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Identifying and correcting the ‘At Risk’ parts of the historic building. These ‘At Risk’ elements have been identified by our Church Architect and are mainly situated at the north of the church in the tower area. We do not want the Church to fall-down!
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Internal improvements to welcome and nurture users of the Minster. These include additional toilets, a new kitchen and welcome area in the south-west aisle, a glass entry porch to keep out the bitter draughts, the creation of a community space, refurbishment of our existing storage area and 500 new chairs!
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Net zero heating installation and insulation. The most efficient format is ground source heating coupled with discretely sited solar panels feeding underfloor heating to the Minster. This will maintain a comfortable temperature inside the building
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throughout the year and help to conserve our unique heritage features. Excess generation of electricity will be used to improve the sustainability of the church for many years to come
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Community engagement through a planned and exciting programme of activities. This will necessitate the appointment of a Community Engagement Officer to further promote our links with the wider community in Great Yarmouth
Last month I was pleased to announce that the Great Yarmouth Minster has successfully become a Net Zero Demonstrator Church. This means we will receive a substantive grant, specialist technical advice and fundraising support
We have also been working on a preliminary application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a large grant, to help us to carry out our ambitious plans. The application known as an Expression of Interest was submitted last month. I am pleased to write that our initial
Paul Spychal, Churchwarden, Great Yarmouth Minster
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