Annex
HCT CHAPELS
Bethesda Methodist Church, Stoke-on-Trent (grade
II*)
Huge 19th-century chapel in gross disrepair
with famous oval tiered gallery. Located in Cultural Quarter to
be regenerated along lines set out in HCT's Audience Development
Plan and Business Plan. Commences February 2006 featured in BBC
2 Restoration programme. £2.5 million scheme.
Biddlestone RC Chapel, Northumberland (grade II*)
Remote chapel in Northumberland National Park,
formerly attached to long demolished Biddlestone Hall and sited
over pele tower. Regenerated for range of activities including
pre and post Reformation services of worship, concerts, outdoor
barbecues; hosts Duke of Edinburgh Award students. Popular with
walkers, visitors. Portable lighting and heating.
Coanwood Friends Meetinghouse, Northumberland
(grade II*)
Remote 18th-century chapel in Moorland, south
of Hadrian's Wall. Left open. Popular with walkers. Activities
on Heritage Open Days. Portable lighting. Small scale repairs
completed.
Cote Baptist Chapel, Oxfordshire (grade II*)
Example of rural regeneration of 18th-century
chapels. Upgraded for concerts, conferences, AGM's, weddings etc.
Kitchens with servery, heating, new electrics. Outbuilding for
separate hire. £250,000 scheme.
Dissenters' Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London
(grade II*)
Formerly derelict early 19th-century chapel
now repaired and regenerated. Used week in week out for exhibitions,
conferences, AGM's, meetings, lectures, play readings etc. Hired
frequently. Tenancy agreement with lively Friends of Kensal Green
Cemetery. New exhibition gallery. £0.5 million+ scheme including
City Challenge grant.
Farfield Friends Meetinghouse, West Yorkshire
(grade II*)
Intact 17th-century meetinghouse. Unsuitable
for modern services. HCT introduced water supply only. Left open
for visitors along Dalesway, which HCT re-routed to cross least
land adjoining Farfield burial ground. Lively Open Days.
Longworth RC Chapel, Bartestree, Herefordshire
(grade II*)
Repair programme in preparation for vandalised
medieval chapel, relocated to adjoin former convent in 19th-century.
To be linked to events connected with nearby hospice and new residence
in convent buildings.
Penrose Methodist Chapel, Cornwall (grade II*)
Tiny rural 19th-century chapel regenerated for
use in village which lacks community space. Modern electrics,
heating, introduced. £55,000 scheme.
Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackpool (grade
II*)
Former convent chapel of 1957 designed by distinguished
architect, F X Velarde, to be repaired and upgraded for concerts
and other community activities. Scheme agreed, fundraising for
£650,000, to include improvements to landscape setting.
St Benet's RC Chapel & Presbytery, Netherton,
Merseyside (grade II*)
Early post-Reformation Catholic chapel of 1793.
All repaired externally. Presbytery repaired internally to form
new residential accommodation. Interior of chapel to be repaired
in 2006. Community uses, weddings etc in prospect. £150,000
spent to date.
St George's German Lutheran Church, Tower Hamlets,
London (grade II*)
£900,000 repair and upgrading programme
to church of 1762. HCT office is now in vestry. Huge range of
concerts, AGMs. Commemorative services, lectures and visits held
including Centenary of birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in February
2006. Re-opened by HRH Duke of Gloucester in 2004.
Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon (grade II*)
Chapel of 1719 rescued from brink of dereliction,
together with former schoolroom for community activities in both
buildings. New services introduced. Facilities much needed in
this big village. £560,000 scheme.
Todmorden Unitarian Church, West Yorkshire (grade
I)
Cathedral-size church by John Gibson, architect.
Church, listed lodge, large wooded burial ground and additional
burial ground repaired and regenerated over 10 years. New uses
based on Audience Development Plan. Retrieval of designed landscape
achieved through Landscape Plan. £750,000 spent thus far.
Lodge houses caretaker.
Umberslade Baptist Church, Warwickshire, (grade
II*)
Repair and upgrading scheme for large 19th-century
estate chapel on fringe of Birmingham but "off beaten track"
and hidden in wooded burial ground. Should commence Spring 2006.
Outbuilding let to local voluntary body. £
Wainsgate Baptist Cburch, West Yorkshire (grade
II*)
Large mid-19th -century complex of chapel and
ancillary buildings plus extensive burial ground. Feasibility
Study commissioned to identify partners to use accommodation.
Keen potential users already in view. Outbuilding let as garage.
Locality lacks community space. Chapel suitable for concerts etc.
Wallasey Memorial Unitarian Church, Merseyside,
(grade II*)
Arts and Crafts "gem", repaired and
regenerated with new facilities in less-well-off neighbourhood.
Integral hall tenanted by ballet school. Disabled lift. £
Walpole Old Chapel, Suffolk (grade II*)
17th-century chapel, intact with galleries.
Repaired and upgraded with new facilities block. Regenerated over
10 years in sparsely populated rural north Suffolk. Hirings to
outside bodies. Planning to reinstate historic paint scheme, 2006.
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19 January 2006
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