Overview
- The donation, recorded as £50,900 in the church’s latest annual financial report, was made last year and disclosed in new media coverage.
- St Peter and St Paul in West Newton, a Grade II listed church on the Sandringham Estate, was a regular place of worship for the late Queen Elizabeth II.
- The parish estimates about £200,000 is needed for the works, with nearly £78,000 already raised locally and further grants and donations being pursued.
- Planned urgent works include re-tiling the north slopes of the Nave and Chancel roofs and repairs to the organ loft and transept roofs, alongside masonry maintenance.
- The church’s royal ties span generations, including an 1881 restoration linked to Edward VII, an organ donated by Queen Victoria, and choir stalls from the then Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.