Church handed £95,000 for repairs (From Daily Echo)
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St Denys Church in Southampton handed £95,000 for repairs
8:30am Sunday 17th March 2013 in News
By Michael Carr, Reporter
The Rev Dr Kelvin Randall outside St Denys Church
WORSHIPPERS at a Southampton church are celebrating after being awarded a £95,000 grant for repairs.
St Denys Church has been standing in the heart of a Southampton community for more than 120 years but the Grade II-listed church in Dundee Road has fallen into such a bad state that worshippers can only use the main hall between April and October.
Now the church has been awarded £95,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund which will see repairs to the roof, windows, rainwater systems and stonework.
The church was built between 1868 and 1889, and designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott who previously designed St Pancras Station, the Albert Memorial in London and even the tallest building in the world in the 19th century – St Nicholas Church in Hamburg.
The essential repairs mean that the church can be used throughout the year as a venue for concerts and other events for the St Denys area and wider Southampton arts and cultural communities.
St Denys parish administrator Martin Smith, 48, from Priory Road, has been a regular at the church for more than 15 years.
He said: “The long-term goal is to get the church heated, so worshippers can use it. These repairs are the start of that.
“What we want to do is open this church more regularly for heritage visitors. It is vitally important to us to get repairs and for the St Denys community by having different events here.
“It has been in need of repair for more than ten years. From the outside it won’t look any different – but it will give us confidence in welcoming people in.
“We are delighted to be recognised as a worthy cause to get money.”
Comments(12)
J.P.M
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1:17pm Sun 17 Mar 13
Bagamn
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1:21pm Sun 17 Mar 13
St.Winch70
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5:51pm Sun 17 Mar 13
If their higher office of fiction perpetrators are unwilling to foot the bill for one of their own properties, then hand the keys over to the national trust and start paying rent if you want to hold your weekly nonsense meetings for your dwindling bunch of weak minded sheep.
Georgem
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6:54pm Sun 17 Mar 13
bazzeroz wrote:So you're saying that public money should only be spent on one thing at a time?
While people are in fear of losing their homes due to the 'bedroom tax'! Got any spare room vicar?
bazzeroz
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7:07pm Sun 17 Mar 13
RedDan
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7:21pm Sun 17 Mar 13
St.Winch70 wrote:Excellent response :)
The building is worth the investment, but not the cult. The only reason a building like this will fall into such a state of disrepair is through neglect.
If their higher office of fiction perpetrators are unwilling to foot the bill for one of their own properties, then hand the keys over to the national trust and start paying rent if you want to hold your weekly nonsense meetings for your dwindling bunch of weak minded sheep.
Georgem
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8:20pm Sun 17 Mar 13
bazzeroz wrote:They have money in secret offshore accounts? Are you sure?
No, I'm saying that the church have enough money secreted away in off shore accounts to do their own repairs. That's what I'm saying, my opinion!
Not opinion, then, is it.
Lockssmart
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9:27pm Sun 17 Mar 13
Huffter
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10:03pm Sun 17 Mar 13
bazzeroz wrote:Mmmm - £95,000 would buy a lot of properties for homeless people...........
While people are in fear of losing their homes due to the 'bedroom tax'! Got any spare room vicar?
Subject48
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2:17pm Mon 18 Mar 13
kingnotail
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6:06pm Mon 18 Mar 13
bazzeroz says...
11:24am Sun 17 Mar 13