TOTNES HERITAGE FESTIVAL – A SUCCESS
Everyone agrees the first Totnes Heritage Festival held on 28 September was a resounding success with record attendances especially at...
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Delve into the hidden history of Totnes
Event Date: 28th September Overview Delve into the hidden history of Totnes with FREE family activities, special openings, talks, and...
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THE TOTNES HERITAGE FESTIVAL – A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
On Saturday 28 September the first Totnes Heritage Festival will be taking place, an event which will give residents and visitors a...
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Successful ACV Application on Kingsbridge Inn
Totnes Heritage Trust is pleased to report that its application to South Hams District Council for the Kingsbridge Inn to be listed as an...
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Trust works with Town Council to secure important community space
"How about the land across the road from KEVICC, known as the Lower Field, becoming a new community space for Totnes? If that can be...
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ACTION TO SAVE THE KINGSBRIDGE INN
The Kingsbridge Inn has been closed for quite a while and there are fears it may be lost forever in the event of a planning application...
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TOTNES HERITAGE TRUST – A POSSIBLE NEW PROJECT
Totnes and Dartington have between them 413 listed buildings, the highest number of listed buildings in Devon. The Totnes Heritage Trust...
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NEW PROJECT ON THE HORIZON
The Totnes Heritage Trust is in discussions with The Mansion trustees on the possibility of working together on a project to renovate and...
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JAZZIENT and MAMA TOKUS to perform at St Mary's Church
Totnes Heritage Trust is proud to welcome back Totnes favourites Jazzient in April. Expect to be dancing in the aisles to Pete and Bev’s...
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TICKETS NOW ON SALE: PETE JUDGE
Solo Pianist Pete Judge will perform at St Mary's on the 13th of May at 4.30PM. Pete Judge is a highly acclaimed musician and composer...
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ST Mary's tackling the climate emergency
St Mary’s Church, in its programme of renovation and renewal works, is taking action to reduce its carbon footprint and become net zero...
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The Totnes Memory Tree
🎄🌲Have you visited the Totnes Memory Tree at St Mary’s? 🌲🎄 The holiday season can be a difficult time for many people in the...
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St Mary's flooring
St Mary’s church has a beautiful Victorian nave floors but sadly much of the floor has cracked, or there are loose and broken tiles. In...
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Get to know St Mary's: The Organ
St Mary’s organ is pretty eye catching don’t you think? The basis for this organ was built by Father Henry Willis for the Great...
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Come and explore the Totnes Map at St Mary's
Have you seen the amazing Totnes Map? In 2019, Totnes Heritage Trust commissioned this enormous map of Totnes. The Map is designed by...
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Thank you for supporting St Mary's
St Mary’s Church has hosted three successful musical events over the last month, raising more than £1,000 towards the Save St Mary’s...
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Don't forget to buy your tickets for this weeks performances
It's time to grab your tickets and dust off your dancing shoes. Totnes Heritage Trust is excited to welcome back Jazzient to St Mary's on...
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APPLICATION SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL OF REORDERING WORKS
In September the project team commissioned an archaeological investigation of the current floor structure by means of the excavation of...
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ACCLAIMED JAZZ PIANIST TO PLAY AT ST MARY'S
Totnes Heritage Trust is proud to announce critically acclaimed jazz pianist Will Butterworth will bring his dazzling and creative...
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Trust welcomes back Jazzient
Following their success at the recent Totnes Festival St Mary's Church is inviting back local Jazz/Rock duo Jazzient. With Peter Shearn...
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Interested in a pew?
A lot has been written about the St Mary’s Church restoration project and it is hoped that the detailed plans to be submitted to the...
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UPDATE: THE RESTORATION AND REORDERING - THE STORY SO FAR
Credit: Colin Wallace Photography In March of this year the National Lottery Heritage Fund granted an award of £100,000 for the...
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Totnes Festival Success
The Totnes Festival was undoubtedly a success and the Totnes Heritage Trust played its part by organising two events. The first was the...
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Short stories published online
Are you looking for a good story to jump into this summer? Well we're delighted to let you know The East Gate Bookshop has published...
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The Talking Forest
Wondering what to see at the Totnes Festival? Well, you won’t want to miss the world premiere of The Talking Forest movie. And better yet...
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Dance for a cause
Jazzient’s performance of August 18th, as part of the Totnes Festival, offers the public another opportunity to get behind supporting the...
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Totnes Festival ticket sales to help support St Mary's Project
Next month’s Totnes Festival will help support the St Mary’s Church Project. Totnes Heritage Trust, together with Friends of St Mary’s...
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Trust aims to raise £60,000 locally to Save St Mary's
On Saturday members of the Totnes Heritage Trust and Friends of St Mary's Church launched its latest fundraising campaign. John and Lynne...
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St Mary’s Church Restoration Project awarded £100,000 grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
The Totnes Heritage Trust, working in partnership with the Totnes with Bridgetown Parochial Church Council, is undertaking the...
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TOTNES HERITAGE GROUPS WORKING TOGETHER
The Totnes Heritage Trust is in the process of arranging with Plymouth University for a group of students to investigate how to create a...
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St Mary’s Church Project –Development planning works about to start.
The Totnes Heritage Trust in partnership with the local parochial church council is planning to start the development planning phase of...
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ST MARY’S CHURCH - THE WAY FORWARD
WHAT IS HAPPENING? The Totnes Heritage Trust’s primary aim for 2022 is to get the development stage of the St Mary’s Church Reordering...
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Witty Words and Wonderful Music Warm the Crowd at St Mary’s Totnes
St Mary’s Church was alive just before Christmas with the sounds of wonderful music, witty poetry and a crowd of about 80 people, many of...
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Totnes Heritage Trust teams up with the Plymouth Business School
The Totnes Heritage Trust has teamed up with the Plymouth Business School in finding ways in which the public can benefit from its...
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Christmas in the air!
Come and join us for an eying of great music and humour on the 11th of December!
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Totnes Heritage Trust in partnership with East Gate BookshopShort Story Competition Prize giving
When the famed Totnes Map was unveiled two years ago in St Mary’s Church it seemed to have something in it for everyone. The historical,...
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Survey shows drive to modernise St Mary’s has public support
The ongoing drive to repair and modernise St Mary’s church in order to expand its usefulness to the wider community has significant and...
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Nicholas Evans to present story competition prizes
Following the success of our map competition back in 2019, Totnes Heritage Trust has joined forces with The East Gate Bookshop to run a...
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Spurred on by success of Crowdfunder
The Totnes Heritage Trust is riding high on community support after raising more than £20,000 in its recent Crowdfunder campaign. The...
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Help us with final push to hit Crowdfunder target
With just six days left on our Crowdfunder campaign to transform St Mary's Church, we need your help to hit our £20,000 target and ensure...
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Crowdfunder campaign to transform St Mary's now live
Totnes Heritage Trust has launched a Crowdfunder campaign to help in its bid to transform St Mary's Church into a community hub and arts...
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Duke opposed 1860s church restoration scheme
As previously reported the Totnes Heritage Trust has come into possession historically important documents dating back to the 1860s when...
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Historic Documents uncovered on Victorian reordering
Totnes Heritage Trust has in its possession historically important documents dating back to the 1860s when St Mary's Church underwent...
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Dartington Playgoers brave elements to put on riveting Christmas show at St Mary's
Neither the cold, nor the rain could stop the intrepid troupe of Dartington Playgoers from putting on a delightfully witty and engaging...
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Works underway - Progress report
The Totnes Heritage Trust, working with St Mary’s Church, has a phased project delivery plan and has recently received funding for the...
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Heritage Award For St Mary's
St. Mary’s Totnes has been named as one of the recipients of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The church has been awarded £83,100...
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Play and music at St Mary’s Churchyard, Totnes
There was plenty of laughter at St Mary’s Church, Totnes when St Mary’s Totnes Heritage Trust played host to the Dartington Playgoers who...
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Heritage Map of Totnes
St Mary’s Totnes Heritage Trust has commissioned an enormous, spectacular, heritage map of Totnes which is now installed in the North...
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News from St Mary's Totnes Heritage Trust
Last August the Trust made an application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for substantial funding for Phase 1 of the restoration...
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The Great Totnes Map Competition
At a well attended gathering at St Mary's Church the prizes were awarded to the winners of the Totnes map competition by the Mayor of...
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St Mary’s Memory Bank
Tell us your story
Share your memories of our beautiful church at the heart of the town and become part of this exciting heritage project.
Totnes Heritage Trust is launching an exciting and ambitious project to create a giant audio visual timeline made up of your memories of St Mary’s Church.
If you have a special memory, of a wedding or a festival, of music, Christmas, Easter, the children’s corner, of enjoying a social occasion, or simply of a quiet moment you remember in this beautiful building, then let us know.
We want to collect memories across all the generations, from young and old, and let us know too if you have stories about your ancestors. Let us know if you have any photographs that might be of interest. We may be in touch to ask for more information unless you state otherwise.
If you don’t want to write your memory yourself, then please get in touch and we will be very happy to help.
Join in this great project. Send your memories to totnesheritage@gmail.com.
See these PDF documents for more news and updates on the project...
An invitation
Why not become a member and be part of this exciting historic initiative? Membership is free, no strings attached, and you will receive regular updates, invitations to events and to the annual general meetings.
Telephone Lynne Birch, Hon Secretary on 07814 002651 or email totnesheritage@gmail.com.
Send us your name, address and telephone number/s along with your email address and we’ll add your details to our membership list.
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