Our history has shaped our identity, and knowing our history helps us to recover our sense of identity. For Christians that means above all the history of the church; and for everyone some history of our country. Local history is concrete and specific. Liz Shatford’s ‘new Pevsner’ on Sandford and its church will enable residents to feel more at home in the village and better to ‘own’ their church building. This belongs to us all, and that is more than those who worship there regularly. Those who worship regularly in the church have been especially excited by this project, and hope that other visitors too will find here, in a story echoed in different ways in many thousands of villages in Britain, a small part of what is their heritage too. We are grateful to Liz, the architect who designed the Welch Room, clerk to the Council and licensed lay minister at St Andrew’s.


Reverend Robert Morgan, Vicar