Stisted Archive
Oral History Project 2023-24 The Stisted Historical Archive has been fortunate in receiving two funding awards from EHT, in support of our work, including the Oral History programme. We have now completed 12 oral...
Category: Projects
Here are examples of past projects funded by Essex Heritage Trust.
Epping Forest District Museum
Two early medieval gold tremisses found in Ongar In November 2017, whilst metal detecting on farmland near Chipping Ongar, a metal detectorist made an interesting discovery: two small gold coins (known as tremisses) dating...
Portrait of Sir John Griffin Griffin
Painting Conservation Essex Heritage Trust awarded a grant to English Heritage for the conservation of this portrait. Sir John Griffin Griffin (1719-1797) was owner of Audley End from 1762 until his death in 1797. A...
The Essex Industrial Archaeology Group
Discovering Essex Wind and Water Mills Essex Heritage Trust awarded a grant to the Essex Industrial Archaeology Group for the publication “Discovering Essex Wind and Water Mills“ The Essex Mills Group was inaugurated in 1985...
Hempstead Pump
The village pump/fountain at the bottom of Church Hill in Hempstead has been a historic feature of the village for a very long time. It was recorded as being the only source of fresh...
Wivenhoe Chapel Museum
“The Smallest Museum in Essex“ The waterside town of Wivenhoe dates back to before the Domesday Book, is prominent on many ancient maps of Essex, and was of great economic importance to the county...
Fry Art Gallery
The Fry Art Gallery received a grant of £1,000 towards the cost of a watercolour entitled “Airplant” by Edward Bawden, painted c. 1986 in his studio in Park Lane, Saffron Walden towards the end...
Walton Maritime Museum
Essex Heritage Trust awarded a grant to the newly listed Grade II, Old Lifeboat House, now Walton’s Maritime Museum, for the conservation of its commemorative marble plaque and terracotta roundels. Badly eroded by frost damage,...
The Church of St John the Baptist, Little Maplestead, ‘The Round Church’
The current Church of St John the Baptist was built around 1335. It replaced previous buildings which dated back to 1186 and which were originally erected by the Knights Hospitaller (now the Order of the Knights...
Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
The PMSA has been recording permanent public sculpture since 1997, and in 2016 it commenced in the County of Essex. This area was to be the subject of a new approach to recording, using...