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Repairs to Historic Chapels Trust Buildings
Bethesda Methodist Chapel, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
A phased scheme of repairs, likely to cost £2.5million in total,
is under way. The first phase of repairs started in May 2006 and was completed
in September 2007. The first phase has addressed:
- The complete overhaul
and repair of the roof structure, including re-slating.
- Other essential high level repairs to brickwork.
- Renewal of rainwater pipes and repair of drainage.
- Elimination of dry rot. - Removal of pigeon guano and debris within
the church, installation of a clear cover over windows to allow natural
light into to building.
- Full repair of the front elevation and rebuilding of roof of front colonnade.
The work has cost approximately £900,000 and has been grant aided
by the North Staffordshire Regeneration Zone, Heritage Lottery Fund, English
Heritage, City of Stoke on Trent Council, plus funds raised by Historic
Chapels Trust and Friends of Bethesda. Our architect will shortly commence
the work required to design the next phase of repairs.
In the meantime our local committee has organised a series of monthly
Open Days, which started with over 1,000 people visiting on 8 September
2007. See events for future events.
Details
will be available on the Bethesda
website.
Biddlestone RC Chapel,
near Netherton, Northumberland
HCT has prepared proposals for a package of repairs which will include
improvements to public access. The works were completed in April 2008.
Coanwood Friends Meeting House, near Haltwhistle, Northumberland
Repaired and open to the public.
Cote Baptist Chapel, Nr Aston, Oxfordshire.
Open to the public for visits, events and hirings. A small outbuilding
can be used independently.
Dissenters’ Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London
Repaired and upgraded and open to the public. Open to the public every
Sunday afternoon until 4.30pm. Cemetery tours also on Sunday afternoons
at 2.00pm starting at the Anglican Chapel.
Farfield Friends Meeting House, West Yorkshire
Repaired and open to the public.
Longworth RC Chapel, Bartestree, Herefordshire
HCT's architect has prepared proposals for the full repair of the building
and English Heritage have awarded a grant of £143,000. Further fundraising
is now being actively undertaken from a wide variety of sources. A well
attended public meeting was held in April 2008 and a local committee created.
Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackpool, Lancashire
Proposals for the full repair of the building have been prepared by our
architect.
Funding has been obtained for a first phase of work, which will cost just
over £100,000. The first phase consisted of repairs to the leaking
copper roof and re-designing a defective rainwater disposal system Grants
have been received from English Heritage, Sita Environmental Trust, Duchy
of Lancaster Benevolent Fund, Trust House Foundation, and Hartsheath Charitable
Trust. Additional donations have been received by the Historic Chapels
Trust and funds raised by the HCT's local committee.
Work on the first phase started in January 2008 and was completed in April
2008.
Penrose Methodist Chapel, Cornwall
Repair work completed December 2004. Open to the public. Minor redecoration
works are due to take place in Summer 2008.
St Benet’s Chapel and Presbytery, Netherton, Merseyside
Presbytery fully repaired and used as a private dwelling. Main external
envelope of the chapel in good repair. Proposals for full repair of the
interior being prepared by HCT’s architect. Not open to visitors
except by prior arrangement.
St George’s German Lutheran Church, Tower Hamlets, London
Repaired and open to the public.
Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon
Major repairs now completed.
Todmorden Unitarian Church, West Yorkshire
Major repairs and upgrading completed. Available for events.
Ongoing restoration of the designed landscape to the gardens and burial
ground, which is being grant aided by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Construction
of new kitchen/toilet facility started in April 2008 and is due to be
completed by June 2008.
Open to the public. Events
organised by local friends
Umberslade Baptist Church, Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire
A first phase of repairs costing around £500,000 started in February
2007 and was completed in March 2008. The repairs included replacing the
slates on the roof, repairing roof timbers and various stonework repairs
to the church and tower.
Wainsgate Baptist Chapel, near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Has come into the care of HCT in late 2004.
The Architectural Heritage Fund has awarded a £7,500 grant towards
the cost of an Options Appraisal exercise. Wiles and Macquire architects
of York have been commissioned to undertake the Options Appraisal –
which is due to be completed by Spring 2007.
Wallasey Unitarian Church, Merseyside
Repaired and open to the public. Disabled lift access.
Wallasey School of Ballet now using the church hall.
Walpole Old Chapel, Suffolk
Repaired and open to the public. Annual events programme. Facilities block.
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Events
in Historic Chapels Trust Buildings
Bethesda Methodist
Chapel, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
Following completion of Phase I of repairs, the chapel will be open to
visitors for the first time in 20 years.
Saturday 9 August, 1.00pm–4.00pm
Biddulph Male Voice Choir
Saturday 13 September, 1.00pm–4.00pm
Lorna Spode Singers
Saturday 11 October, 12 noon–3.00pm
St Peters School Choir
Saturday 8 November,12 noon–3.00pm
Not Strictly Barbershop Singers
Saturday 13 December, 12 noon–3.00pm
Biddlestone RC Chapel, near Netherton, Northumberland
Coanwood Friends Meeting House, near Haltwhistle, Northumberland
Open daily to the public.
Cote Baptist Chapel, near Aston, Oxfordshire
Dissenters’ Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London
Open every Sunday afternoon with guided tours of the Cemetery starting
at 2pm from the Anglican Chapel.
Farfield Friends Meeting House, West Yorkshire
Open on application to the keyholder.
Next open day:
Saturday 13 September, 1.00–4.00 pm
Longworth RC Chapel, Bartestree, Herefordshire
Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackpool, Lancashire
Awaiting a programme of repairs.
Penrose Methodist Chapel, Cornwall
For
access please ring 01841 540737.
St Benet’s Chapel and Presbytery, Netherton, Merseyside
Presbytery repaired and in use as a private dwelling. Chapel closed, pending
start of a programme of repairs. Apply to keyholder to visit.
St George’s German Lutheran Church, Tower Hamlets, London
Friday 15 August, 7.45pm, COLAS
(City of London Archaeological Society), Talk about thehistory of
the church and the Bonhoeffer connection.
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September, Heritage
of London Trust, Open Weekend, the church will be open during the
day.
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September,
London Open House Weekend
Friday 26 September, 6.30pm, performance by the Cantus Girls Choir from
Bochum Langendreer, near Dortmund. (Tickets £5 on the door.)
Sunday 4 October, 3pm, Performance by the
Philharmonischer Kinderchor, Dresden. (Tickets £5 on the door.)
Thursday 16 October, 6.30pm, Talk by Loyd Grossman (Chairman, Churches
Conservation Trust).
Salem Chapel,
East Budleigh, Devon
East Devon's writers' workshop
Meets on the second Wednesday of each month 2.00pm–4.00pm in the
schoolroom.
Tel o1395 444406 for details.
The building
will be open on the first and third Sundays of June, July, August and
September with an exhibition of documents and photographs.
Budleigh Salterton Festival
Week
Sunday 27
July, 3.00pm Readings by the great-grandson of Charles Dickens, Tickets
£5.00, family tickets £12.50, from festival box office 01395
445275, budleigh.tic@btconnect.com.
Saturday
16 to Sunday 31 August, 2.00–4.30pm Veitch Exhibition on Global Gardens.
Admission free, plants for sale.
Saturday
16 August, 7.30pm talk on 'The Story of Veitch and Their Famous Plants'
by Caradoc Doy, plant historian and horticulturist. Tickets £5.00.
Friday 29
August, 7.30 pm, talk on 'Victorian Souvenir Collection with a focus on
Veitch Plant Hunters' by Tony Eccles of Exter Museum. Tickets £5.00.
Sunday 7
September 'Songs and Hymns at Salem'
Revd G. Flather, 4.00pm.
Heritage Weekend
13 and 14 September. Admission Free
Exhibition of Chapel documents photographs of life as it was in East Budleigh
and Otterton.
Open Saturday 2.00pm–4.30pm,Sunday 2.00pm–4.30pm
Saturday 27 September, 7.30pm, candlelit concert by
Stephan Yates, award winning, classical guitarist and composer. Tickets
£5.00. Wine/juice and nibbles available.
Sunday 30 November, 4.00pm, 'Advent arrives at Salem'th Revd G. Flather.
Saturday 6 and 7 December, 10.00 –6.00pm. 'Ethnic Effects': buy your
Christmas presents at this excellent bazaar, admission free.
Sunday 21 December, 4.00pm,' Salem and Christmas'
Revd. G Flather, mulled wine, juice and mince pies available after the
service.
For details
of events and tickets, tel 01395 445236, 01395 446189.
Todmorden Unitarian
Church
Open on application
to the keyholder.
see also
Todmorden
Unitarian Church website.
Umberslade Baptist
Church, Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire
Chapel will be open on Heritage Open Day Weekend 13 and 14 September 2008,
1.00pm–4.00pm, both days. Further events to be announced.
Wainsgate Baptist Chapel, near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Chapel will be open on Heritage Open Day Weekend Sunday 14 September 2008,
1.00pm–4.00pm. Further events to be announced.
Walpole Old Chapel, Suffolk
7 and 8 June Walpole Village Open Days, guided tours and refreshments
available from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm.
14 June, 7.30 pm The return of singer/songwriter duo Patti Vetta
and Alan Franks. Singer Patti vetta and singer/songwriter Alan Franks
have been performing together and recording Alan's songs for some years.
The songs are comic and satirical and also poetic and reflective as one
would expect from an award winning poet. Patti turned prfessional in her
teens and travelled the world with the Settlers, and singing with Johnny
Cash and the Everly Brothers.
21 June, 7.30 pm Lecture on Aspects of Dissent in East Anglia by Professor
Clyde Binfield.
22 June, 3.00 pm Annual Anniversary Service led by Revd K. Maltus Smith,
preacher Professor Clyde Binfield.
5 July, 2.30 pm Workshop and 7.30pm performance by the Norfolk Gallery
Quire
13 September Suffolk
Historic Churches Trust Sponsored Bike Ride
13 and 14 September Heritage Open Days, guided tours and information from
10.00 am to 5.00 pm on the 13th and 10.30 am to 4.00 pm on 14th.
21 September, 3.00 pm Songs of Praise with Waveney Valley Brass
20 December 3.00 pm Carols and Readings for Christmas.
The chapel will be open on Saturday afternoons between 2.00 pm and 4.30
pm from 24 May to 13 September.
Please go to the website
for further details.
Wallasey Unitarian Church, Merseyside
Open on application to the keyholder.
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