Fishlake St. Cuthbert - funding needed - £$€ - we value any currency!
Fishlake St. Cuthbert is a magnificent Grade 1 Listed Major Parish Church that is entering a new period of urgently needed funding to provide the means to effect repairs, conservation, restoration and some improvements.
The Church has been carefully examined and documented and is well-understood. The structure is monitored, safe, well-cared for and proactively maintained.
Current projects:
1 – South Doorway Norman Romanesque Doorway - £30,000.00 - £8,000 committed by grant
A project of national importance backed by ChurchCare to establish the best methods of conserving Romanesque sculptures - Architects (Purcell) report available on request
2 – 14thc font - £1,800.00 - to establish the causes of stress cracking and plan a programme of repairs and conservation
3 – 17 repairs under a granted faculty - £17,000.00 – latest estimates - to date all funded by donations and the PCC
Future projects in planning:
4 – A complete surface water drainage system – under current investigation
5 – A new heating system – under investigation - 1901 system has to be replaced, but due to a high water table, a proper system of surface water drainage has to come first
6 – A new floor enabling re-ordering – in planning - predicated on the outcome of items of plans for points 4 & 5
7 – Repairs to the east and west tower pinnacle foundations including the upper west wall of the tower immediately adjacent to and behind the clock
8 - Overhauling the clock face, re-gilding the clock face numerals and fitting a light over the clock
9 – Re-ordering of the tower’s bell chamber and clock chamber into one entity repairing both seriously defective and weak floors thus preventing a major collapse, creating a new chamber, augmenting the existing 6 bells to 8, tuning them and creating a bell training centre, repairing the tower staircase and inner walls. The current design retains both the ancient clock chamber beams visible from the nave and the original bell frame accessible from the tower staircase, both supported by the new intermediate chamber floor and thus retained for posterity
10 – Acting on conservation advice to conserve the south doorway architecture
11 – Creating a new room under the tower for community use with underfloor heating and restoring the south doorway wooden door
12 – Repairing the upper external buttress walls of the north and south aisles at the abutments of the Lady Chapel (north side) and Trinity Chapel (south side)
13 – Repairing the Lady Chapel (north side) and Trinity Chapel (south side) internal arches
14 – Repairs to the chancel internal walls
15 - Repairs to the nave walls, north, south, east and west, north and south aisle walls
16 – Repairs to the Lady Chapel (north side) and Trinity Chapel (south side) inner walls
17 – Repairs to the Vestry internal walls
18 – Creating a new folding ringing floor (hiding when not used behind the nave arch pillars), accessible from the tower staircase, to open up the vista of the magnificent east window
19 – Re-wiring throughout
20 – Installing new lighting
21 - Re-laying the Churchyard footpath
22 - Re-building the Churchyard walls
23 - Creating a Church car park in the adjacent field
