Saving St. Michael the Archangel with Art and Heritage is the new community campaign to do two things:
- Repair, restore and maintain the church in Markington, North Yorkshire for occasional use as a place of worship and full time community use as a local heritage centre.
- create Welcome to Markington as a heritage centre, contemporary art gallery and public art commissioner to tell the story of Markington, especially in connection to William Wilberforce and his family. William was the eighteenth century MP for Hull, abolitionist and freedom campaigner who inherited Markington Hall and whose son founded the church, St. Michael the Archangel in 1844. Markington’s has had a continuous history over 3000 years and is a remarkable site of special historical interest.
