Church Recording by The Arts Society (NADFAS) ceased in 2021 and was taken on by the (then new) Church Recording Society: https://www.churchrecordingsociety.org.uk who state in their history:

Church Recording was launched by NADFAS in 1973 in response to the challenge from the V&A: “Would it be possible for groups of volunteers to acquire the expertise to record and archive the artefacts inside churches to a professional standard?”.

Since then, the process for recording the contents of our places of worship has been perfected. Many of the Recorders are now experts in their field, sharing their knowledge with the Church Recording community and beyond.

In 2021 the Church Recording Society was formed by the Church Recorders themselves to take over being the national society for the church recording project. Most Church Recording Groups have been a volunteering activity of one of the UK wide Decorative and Fine Arts Societies affiliated to The Arts Society (NADFAS’s operating name). This continues to be the case.

NADFAS had introduced the acitivity with these paragraphs from the Church Recording manual 'Inside Churches - a guide to church furnishings; NADFAS' (1993):

"Churches in Britain encapsulate much of the complex history of these islands. Nearly every town and village has its own parish church and most often it is the oldest building, set apart from the dwellings of ordinary people. Many churches are truly ancient, the first buildings of stone by early Christians, dating back to a time when religion was the mainspring of society. It is not uncommon to find a church built by the Norman settlers of the 11th century but it is unusual for any church to date from only one century; many may have something to offer from every period of our history. 

Although there has been a constant evolution over the centuries, we can recognise three distinct periods: the six hundred years to the Reformation in the mid-16th century; the next three hundred years during which a whole series of fundamental changes were followed by a period of stagnation; and finally a re-awakening from the 1840s to today"          

Members of the Ascot society (Ascot DFAS to The Arts Society Ascot) have been Church Recorders at:

• All Saints, Ascot in the early 1990s;
• St John the Baptist, Windlesham;
• All Souls, South Ascot;  
• St Michael and All Angels, Sunninghill;
• Thorpe St Mary;
• St Bartholomew’s, Wanborough;
• Chobham St Lawrence;
• St Michael & Mary Magdelene, Easthampstead, 
• St Michael’ the Archangel, Warfield.
• St Mary Winkfield completed in 2021.