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Friends of Friendless Churches
The Friends of Friendless Churches is a registered charity active in England and Wales.〔 Retrieved 11 September 2011〕 It campaigns for and rescues redundant historic churches threatened by demolition, decay, or inappropriate conversion. To that end, as of March 2012, it owns 44 former churches or chapels, 23 of which are in England, and 21 in Wales.
==History==
The charity was formed in 1957 by Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, a writer, former MP and a high church Anglican,〔Anglesey (2004) '(Thomas, Ivor Bulmer (1905–1993) )', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Retrieved on 7 August 2010. 〕 who became its first chairman; its executive committee included prominent politicians and architects. Initially the charity campaigned and obtained grants for the repair and restoration of churches within its remit. The 1968 Pastoral Measure established the Redundant Churches Fund (now called the Churches Conservation Trust), which it was thought would obviate the need for the Friends. However, the Church Commissioners turned down a number of buildings that the executive committee considered worthy of preservation, including Old St Matthew's Church, Lightcliffe, and St Peter's Church, Wickham Bishops. The charity therefore decided in 1972 to change its constitution, allowing it to acquire threatened buildings either by freehold or by lease. The tower of the church at Lightcliffe was the first property to be vested with the charity.
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