What follows is an excerpt from Simon Weeks’ September newsletter. You can read the full newsletter here.
Walpole Old Chapel has received a grant from Historic England that is allowing the Unwrapped project’s architect to commission the following works:
- A measured survey of the building, which has not been done to date.
- A survey of the surface water drainage arrangements
- Cutting away sample areas of the external render to better understand the state of the structural timbers underneath
- Investigation of removal of the black tar paint from the plinth
When these investigatory works have been completed, we hope to be in a position to formally apply for Listed Building Consent for the main repair and conservation scheme. This will start with removing all the existing external render, which is failing badly. Any necessary repairs to the underlying timbers and infill can then be undertaken.
The project is seeing to raise £10,000 of the overall project cost from crowdfunding. You can find out more about make a donation and the fundraising campaign on the Walpole Old Chapel website.