About us
Bamburgh Heritage Trust is a small group of community volunteers working together to celebrate and treasure the stories of Bamburgh and to raise the awareness of the heritage of Bamburgh for visitors and residents.
Our past projects include;
Raising money for a 'Queen's Jubilee Bell' for St Aidan's Church. This is a clock bell which now chimes on the hour and half an hour for all of the village to hear.
We automated the rest of the bells in St Aidan's Bell tower for the King's Coronation so now the bell tower can (if needed ) produce a fully automated peal of bells.
We secured funding to deliver the ambitious ‘Accessing Aidan’ Project that enabled access to the crypt of St Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh so that it now welcomes visitors every day, installing new interpretation in the crypt and the church to create a heritage space which explores the significance of Anglo-Saxon Bamburgh. The funding also utilised the extensive research done by Durham University and Bamburgh Research Project to tell the unique stories of the Anglo-Saxon skeletons excavated from the sand dunes and now interred in the newly created ossuary in the second crypt and created a 21st century digital ossuary, making all the skeleton analysis available digitally. This project delivers varied and engaging activity programme which will bring new audiences and train local volunteers to support the heritage offer and sustain the project going forward.