Greater Churches Group
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The Greater Churches Group is a self help organisation within the Church of England.
It aims to provide help and mutual support to its member churches in dealing with the special problems of running a 'cathedral-like' church with the organisation and financial structure of a parish church.
The group meets every few years in conference to share ideas.
Several of these buildings are former monastic properties that were converted to parish church use after the reformation. Others are large parish churches built at a time of great wealth. What they share in common are the requirements to offer facilities to a large number of visitors, host special services, offer community access and fund the specialist maintenance and repair of these large Grade I listed buildings.
[edit] List of churches
There are currently 19 churches within the Greater Churches Group.
- Beverley Minster [1]
- St Botolph with St Christopher, Boston [2]
- Christchurch Priory [3]
- Hexham Abbey [4]
- Holy Trinity, Hull [5]
- Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon [6]
- Leeds Parish Church [7]
- St Laurence Church, Ludlow [8]
- Malvern Priory [9]
- St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham [10]
- St. Mary's Church, Nottingham [11]
- St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol [12]
- Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick [13]
- St Peter Mancroft, Norwich [14]
- Romsey Abbey [15]
- Selby Abbey [16]
- Sherborne Abbey [17]
- Tewkesbury Abbey [18]
- Wimborne Minster [19]
