Charity awarded £50,000 to support historic Hull shipsâ restoration
The funding will help towards the conservation of the Spurn Lightship and the Arctic Corsair
Hull s Arctic Corsair at her old berth beside the Streetlife Museum in the city (Image: Hull City Council)
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The conservation of two of Hullâs historic ships has received a boost.
Vital funding saves Pulham St Mary Church from brink of collapse
| Updated: 09:47, 10 March 2021
A Norfolk church has been rescued from the brink of collapse after being given vital funding to pay for urgent repairs.
St Mary the Virgin Church in Pulham St Mary has received more than £12,000 to help repair a water leek that was seeping through the roof of the Grade I-listed building.
The grant, which came from the Governmentâs £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF), arrived just in the nick of time.
Marian Wilson, secretary at St Mary The Virgin Church Picture by Mecha Morton
If left much longer, damage to the building in The Street could have been beyond the point of repair, with rain water beginning to erode the churchâs 200-year-old masonry.
The Roman lead pig or ingot AN almost 2,000 year old Roman lead ingot will take pride of place in Craven Museum following the successful fundraising of just under £23,000. Also known as a ‘pig’, the ingot, which dates from AD 81, is one of a pair found by Sir Thomas Ingilby in around 1731 at Hayshaw Moor, near Pateley Bridge. It is about 23 inches long, and four inches wide, and weighs 154Ibs, or 11 stones. It has been kept at Ripley Castle until now, while its companion has been in the British Museum since 1772. Danielle Daglan, Craven District Council’s cultural services manager, said it had great significance to the area and would be a ‘fantastic addition’ to the museum s collection.