Category: Projects

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome (SMGWA) is a historical and community treasure, now emerging from its decades-long rest. Located less than 12 miles from Chelmsford, nestled deep in the rural fields of Maldon District,...

The Beecroft Art Gallery has recently reopened its doors after being relocated to a very large building on Victoria Avenue in Southend-on-Sea that was previously home to the Southend Library. During this large-scale gallery...

A remarkable archaeological find has been secured by Saffron Walden Museum, thanks to grants from the Essex Heritage Trust and several national funding organisations. The large gold finger ring, measuring up to 27mm across...