Claire Walker, chief executive of the National Churches Trust, which promotes church conservation, said it hoped the list would help highlight the awareness of churches as some of the UK's "most important and well-loved" buildings.
In Ohio, a "Breathers Lobby" of health, labor, church and conservation organizations has been pushing bills that would orient the state air pollution board more toward public in terests by including an ecolo gist and an engineer among its members.
Medieval wall paintings of five of the seven deadly sins are to be unveiled at a Vale of Glamorgan church following conservation work.
"We have been preparing for a tsunami of church closures but it hasn't come," says Matthew Saunders of Friends of Friendless Churches, a noble conservation charity.
Even with a modest 10-hour-a-year requirement (the equivalent of two mornings a year) America would gain 60 million volunteer hours to invigorate the nation's nonprofit organizations, churches, job corps, conservation groups and college outreach programs.
David Colbourne Marshfield, South Gloucestershire Our church (in a conservation area) applied to install solar panels on the roof.
Terry Sheppard Rothley, Leicestershire Our Grade I-listed parish church in a conservation area had a 3.99kW system fitted to the south-facing central nave roof earlier this year, with full approval of both the church authorities and the local conservation officer.
The area around the church forms a conservation area.
This Victorian village on either side of Leigh Road, together with St Michael and All Angel's Church, is a conservation area.
Vermont Interfaith Power and Light offers a pro bono energy audit to communities of faith, done by a former professional on our board who submits a report of recommendations to the church about energy conservation in its buildings.
Such decrepitude is widespread; a recent survey by the Italian Ministry of Culture of a few square miles of Rome's historic center found no less than 115 churches in need of conservation work.
