Best church architecture awards

Architects have until 3 October 2014 to enter their church building and church conservation projects for two national awards:The Presidents' Award and theKing of Prussia Gold Medal.

The Presidents' Award

New church buildings and new designs in church re-ordering, alterations or extensions can be entered for The Presidents' Award. The award is open to church buildings of all Christian denominations in the UK.The Presidents' Award is made on behalf of the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association President and the National Churches Trust's Joint Presidents, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

Projects are eligible if they have been completed within the last three years.

The 2013 Presidents' Award was awarded to the Michael Dales Partnership for the new Parish Room at St Mary's Church, Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire.

The King of Prussia Gold Medal

Innovative, high quality church conservation or repair work that has successfully overcome a major aesthetic or technical challenge is eligible to be entered for The King of Prussia's Gold Medal. The Gold Medal was the gift of King Freidrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia in 1857 who was highly impressed with British Victorian church architecture.

The award is open to the Architect or Chartered Surveyor on any scheme of repair for a church or chapel of any Christian denomination in the UK, in use for regular worship, and over one hundred years old. The scheme must have been funded by a grant or loan from the National Churches Trust, or would have been eligible for such a grant or loan, and have been completed within the last three years.

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Best church architecture awards