Grants – List of Grants
Grants from the Friends since 1930 to the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral
The total of Friends’ Grants to date is £4,531,316
It is the Friends’ purpose and privilege to help Salisbury Cathedral. Long may our members, through their generosity by subscriptions, donations and bequests, be able to continue this labour of love.
The full list is shown below.
| Year | £ | Grants |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 166,500 | £127,000 for external LED lighting £3,000 for cathedral flowers £30,000 for new Chamber organ £6,500 for 2 new large screen televisions and cases |
| 2021 | 128,523 | £42,000 final payment for visitor entrance/ramp £200 for Morning Chapel cushions £72,000 final payment towards Little Paradise £3,000 for Cathedral flowers £4,023 restricted to fund choirs & choristers £3,100 for additional camera for live streaming equipment £4,200 for restoration of painting of Bishop Geste in the Library |
| 2020 | 164,786 | £74,000 towards Little Paradise £22,000 for live streaming equipment £3,000 for cathedral flowers £1,000 for the cathedral Christmas trees £36,786 to the Cathedral Recovery Appeal £8,000 towards MRA6 £20,000 first half of Visitor ramp funding |
| 2019 | 115,100 | £74,000 towards Little Paradise; £20,000 for windows s26 refurbishment; £5,000 for Cathedral flowers; £6,600 for display cases; £5,000 for access ladders for Works Department; £2,500 for uplighters; £2,000 for 'A' frame for grand piano |
| 2018 | 189000 | £74,000 towards Little Paradise; £3,000 for Cathedral flowers; £6,000 for refurbishment of Mogford model; £106,000 for organ restoration |
| 2017 | 98238 | £74,000 towards Little Paradise; £3,000 for Cathedral flowers; £6,500 towards Cathedral youth choirs; £6,000 cloister lighting; £2,500 digital microphones; £5,000 towards Behind the Library Door Project; £1,238 external Cathedral noticeboard |
| 2016 | 84891 | £74,000 towards Little Paradise - repayment of endowed funds; £3,000 for Cathedral flowers; £816 electric generator for Works Department; £1,745 20 sets of Liturgical vessels; £330 signage for the Mogford Model; £5,000 grant for music (from restricted bequest) |
| 2015 | 101000 | £74000 towards Little Paradise - repayment of endowed funds; £3000 for Cathedral Flowers; £24000 for Magna Carta projects |
| 2014 | 77000 | £3000 pa for Cathedral Flowers; £74000 towards Little Paradise - repayment of endowed funds |
| 2013 | 409500 | £2000 pa for Cathedral Flowers; £500 sponsorship of recital SCF; £5000 re-ordering of St Michael's Chapel; £400000 towards Little Paradise |
| 2012 | 2000 | £2000 pa for Cathedral Flowers |
| 2011 | 2000 | £2000 pa for Cathedral Flowers |
| 2010 | 272000 | £2000 pa for Cathedral Flowers; £270000 'Little Paradise' project - enabling works for replacement of toilet facilities and storage area |
| 2009 | 205000 | Monument Conservation over 3 years £45000; Quire Lighting £60000; MRP programme £100000 |
| 2008 | 25000 | Repairs to Te Deum Frontal £20000; Large Screen TV Monitor £7000 (postponed); Nave Altar works £5000 |
| 2007 | 167500 | External Lighting scheme £130000; Repairs to Medieval Clock £2500; New Cathedral Guide Book £10000; West Front Statue of Canon Ezra £25000 |
| 2006 | 346000 | Monument Conservation (bequest from Mr A Symns) £5000; Fees for Lighting Project £80000; Contribution to the cost of the new Internal Lighting scheme £261000 |
| 2005 | 394744 | £240000 for Major Repair Programme (Chafy Bequest); New chairs £70513; Sound & Loop system £6000; Conservation Plan £22366; West Front Statues £1232; Monument conservation £9170; 75th Anniversary CD £4713; Minor projects £750; first payment for Lighting Project Fees £30000; Trees for Choristers’ Green (Towill Bequest) £10000 |
| 2004 | 141015 | New chairs £51499; sound and loop systems £28901; Conservation Plan £24664; Handrails West staircase £12351; Monument conservation £5629; other projects £2725 |
| 2003 | 47656 | New chairs £29174; Monument conservation £7461; Fabric repairs £2559; West Front statues £1598; Sound system £799; Other projects £6065 |
| 2002 | 251111 | £110000 for new visitor centre (Magna Carta Project); Boiler £58306; Monument conservation £16083; West Front statues £15223; Sound system £4000; Cathedral fabric repairs £33518; other projects £13981 |
| 2001 | 84637 | Chorister bursary £25000; Sound system £23035; Monument conservation £6;116; Fire doors in roof and tower £6116; other projects £15170 |
| 2000 | 245624 | Sound system £176635; Redevelopment of visitors’ facilities £15000; St Osmund’s Day celebrations £10000; fire doors in roof and tower £13000; apron drainage repairs £8154; other projects £22835 |
| 1999 | 58226 | Electrical upgrade £45000; Acoustic survey £7163; other projects £6063 |
| 1998 | 198242 | Eastern Chapel roofs £100000; Electrical upgrade £35000; monument conservation £12359; Vault drains £6000; Boiler repairs £5043; N Transept Chapels £3000; other projects £9000 |
| 1997 | 19856 | N Transept chapels £4997; Boiler repairs £9957; Cloister garth £3261; minor projects £1641 |
| 1996 | 34484 | N Transept screen £15000; N Transept exhibition £10000; Stone storage area £3800; minor projects £5684 |
| 1995 | 41396 | Girl chorister’s bursary £25000; N Transept screen £10000; sound system £5566; minor projects £830 |
| 1994 | 139000 | Cloisters restoration £113500; Cloister roof £3000; heating system £15000; outer vestry refurbishment £7200; minor projects £500 |
| 1993 | 44190 | Cloisters restoration £22500; N Transept screen £7500; Triforium roof £10000; switch-gear cupboard £2730; verge cupboard £1460 |
| 1992 | 130973 | Cloisters restoration £18000; North Transept screen £7500; cloister roof £79035; Organ screens £6000; Girls’ choir £5000; Vestry table £4500; Choir Aisle lighting £3500; Copes £5000; Trinity Chapel lighting £2438 |
| 1991 | 92261 | Cloisters restoration £13500; Cloister roof £20000; Lighting phase 3 £25300; Vestry refurbishment £22300; Consistory Court door and lighting £4538; Trinity Chapel sound system £2000; Diamond Jubilee vestments £2745; Diamond Jubilee anthem £450; hymn book trolleys £1428 |
| 1990 | 19000 | Cloisters restoration £18000; North Porch Door £1;000 |
| 1989 | 18500 | Organ fund £10000; North Porch Doors £4000; Cloisters restoration £4500 |
| 1988 | 52343 | Lighting (completion of 2nd phase) £16;211;Organ repairs £14;889 |
| 1987 | 26887 | Lighting (2nd phase) £24564; humidifier pallets £2323 |
| 1986 | 36136 | £35000 towards Spire Appeal; choral scholarship; organ repairs £100 |
| 1985 | 0 | No Details Available |
| 1984 | 46512 | Nave lighting |
| 1983 | 37816 | £42316 towards nave lighting |
| 1982 | 1000 | High Altar Frontal |
| 1981 | 23815 | New sound system £12500; Repair of Snetzler organ £3000; Moses window (centre light) £6200; Sanctuary carpet £2000; Seat for The Close £115 |
| 1980 | 57760 | Display case and alarm system for Magna Carta £3000;Altar frontals and hangings £1350; carpet and curtain for St Lawrence’s Chapel; repairs to the Moses window; choral scholarship £20000; extension of Cathedral Shop £25000; provisions for high altar cross and candlesticks £2500 |
| 1979 | 29500 | Renovation of the organ |
| 1978 | 22510 | First instalment for moving Shop £10000; £2510 for organ repairs |
| 1977 | 1033 | Repair of grand organ swell action |
| 1976 | 7101 | No Details Available |
| 1975 | 7852 | £2000 for fire-fighting |
| 1974 | 3815 | £2000 to Appeal (final payment); fire-fighting £1815 |
| 1973 | 6401 | £2000 to Appeal; cost and installation of caravan for visitors’ refreshments in Cloisters £3700; final instalment for lighting in Tower Vault £630 |
| 1972 | 4222 | £2000 to Appeal; Tower Vault and Choir lighting £2082; vestments |
| 1971 | 7105 | £2000 to Appeal Fund; compressor for workshops; new desk for Vestry; new vestments; renovation of Tower Vault £1000 (first instalment) |
| 1970 | 2458 | £2008 to Appeal Fund; new amplification system £450 |
| 1969 | 2000 | £2000 to Appeal Fund |
| 1968 | 2137 | £2000 to Appeal Fund; coin-counting machine (1/2 cost) |
| 1967 | 7460 | £5000 to Cathedral Appeal; repairs to monuments; masons’ wages; clock maintenance; £1000 to Sinking Fund |
| 1966 | 2243 | £1000 to Sinking Fund |
| 1965 | 4790 | Dust extraction plant (workshops); new switchboard £1100; mason’s wages; clock; oak; renovations to monuments; new hassocks; new candlesticks; oak trees (for seasoning); Sinking Fund for special purpose £1000 |
| 1964 | 1280 | Mason’s wages; clock; protective matting; alms chest; oak trees £205; renovation of Sadleir tomb and cleaning of monuments; renovation of Coat of Arms on North Gate |
| 1963 | 2956 | Sub-station £500; Quire heating and lighting; light for Tract Case; and Diocesan Map; amplifiers; raising gear for quire microphones; mason’s wages; repairs to window in S Transept; repainting iron ties; cleaning and polishing machines; bookcase extension; clock |
| 1962 | 5082 | Under-floor heating in Quire £2;500; new case for Snetzler Organ; clock maintenance; masons’ wages; new lighting in Quire £555; new communion rails for High altar £635; new chair and kneeler for vergers; roof ladders; repairs to Close wall; new Litany desk; plate glass to cover frontal in St Edmund’s Chapel; heating in return stalls in Quire. |
| 1961 | 1470 | Mason’s wages; grant towards cost of amplifiers; timber £100; grant for cost of North Porch repairs; contribution towards cost of scaffolding; boiler maintenance; Chapter House & Library |
| 1960 | 1676 | Mason’s wages; maintenance of Clock; oak and lead £282; oak press for muniments; grant towards cost of amplifiers £250; manuscripts purchased for Library; fees; window repairs etc |
| 1959 | 515 | Mason’s wages; maintenance of Clock; contribution to Embroiderers’ Guild; renovation of organ for chapel |
| 1958 | 1770 | Mason’s wages; repairs to Chapter House gates; pinnacles; windows; maintenance of Clock; general maintenance; purchase of Mortice Machine; contribution towards cost of scaffolding |
| 1957 | 1658 | Mason’s wages; sound amplification; renovation of Ancient Clock £382; repairs to 2 windows in S Transept and to South Choir Triforium roof |
| 1956 | 1680 | Mason’s wages; windows; timber; Chapter House roof; sound amplification £500 |
| 1955 | 1235 | Mason’s wages; roof repairs; window repairs; workshop machinery |
| 1954 | 600 | 1000 chairs £400; mason’s wages |
| 1952-1953 | 900 | Mason’s wages; Cloister Roof repairs £500 |
| 1951 | 728 | Mason’s wages; repairs to 2 Clerestory windows; repairs to North Porch Roof |
| 1950 | 1851 | Spire fund; mason’s wages; repairs to 6 Clerestory windows and South Nave windows |
| 1949 | 822 | Mason’s wages; lighting of Library (balance); repairs; 4 Clerestory windows; easel for notices in North Porch |
| 1948 | 321 | Mason’s wages; lighting of Library; repairs; Chapter House Roof |
| 1947 | 350 | Mason’s wages; restoring stained glass |
| 1946 | 890 | Mason’s wages; restoring stained glass; repairs and renovations in Library |
| 1945 | 723 | Mason’s wages; repairs to Chapter House windows; refitting stained glass; expenses re Return of Cathedral Treasures on Cessation of Hostilities |
| 1944 | 182 | Mason’s wages |
| 1943 | 226 | Mason’s wages; firewatching |
| 1942 | 534 | 2 white seats; mason’s wages; firewatching; reserve for replacing ancient glass after the War |
| 1941 | 422 | Mason’s wages; fire-watching expenses; fabric repairs |
| 1940 | 423 | Restoration of Hertford monument etc; mason’s wages; re- glazing of 2 windows; repairs |
| 1939 | 1126 | £75 for 500 folding chairs; repair fund; mason’s wages; amplifiers; grant to Guild of Embroiderers |
| 1938 | 490 | £169 for a year’s wages for a mason; repair Fund and repair to north Gate |
| 1937 | 1,194 | Repair fund; fire appliances; etc |
| 1936 | 1,164 | Spire & Fabric repair fund |
| 1935 | 432 | Repair fund and final payments on new doorway; fees etc |
| 1934 | 300 | Organ restoration fund £200; New doorway £100 |
| 1933 | 590 | Cathedral Repair Fund £90; Organ restoration fund £500 |