Shobdon Church Preservation Trust

Shobdon Church Preservation Trust
Protecting the fabric of this building of national importance for future generations
Registered Charity No. 1100957

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Shobdon Church - a building at risk

The restoration works which should have been nearly completed by now, have come to a halt. The condition of the structural timbers behind the decorative plasterwork uncovered above the south transept, was far worse that had been expected. The north and south transepts are now being propped internally in order to prevent their collapse. Since the cost of repairs was going to be far in excess of the funding available and anything extra that English Heritage (EH) might have been able to offer, it has been agreed by EH that the first step must be to establish an accurate estimate of repairs to the south transept and on the basis of that, to “guesstimate” the likely cost of repairing all of the east end of the building. Those estimates would then form part of a new application to EH in June for realistic financial assistance to complete the works. There is no guarantee that EH will be able to help as much as we/it would like; it too is short of government/lottery money in these difficult times.