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Church gets lottery boost
7:10pm Friday 4th July 2008
By James Connell »
A WORCESTER church has received a £100,000 boost thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund.
St George’s Catholic Church in Sansome Place, Worcester, is one of 13 churches across the West Midlands to benefit from a £1 million repair grant.
The grant will help to repair grade II listed buildings across the region.
The £101,000 for St George’s Catholic Church will be used to pay for roof repairs for the vestries and repairs to the south aisle lead work. The church was built in 1827 and designed by Sir Aston Webb.
The work the grant will pay for is the second of a three-phase programme of urgently-needed repairs.
Last year, the Parochial Church Council successfully completed the grant-aided phase one works by stripping and re-slating the roofs to the naves, chancel and trancepts.
The third and final phase of the work will involve work to strip and recover the north aisle and Lady Chapel roofs.
The building stands next to a £1.2 million parish hall which won the Civic City Award 2006.
Father Paul Fitzpatrick helped to design the hall.
He left the church last August to go to Oscott College in Sutton Coldfield.
He was replaced by Father Brian McGinley who joined the church in the same month.
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CJH, Worcester says...
12:09am Sat 5 Jul 08
Common Sense, Pershore says...
9:40am Sat 5 Jul 08
Slow and insidious - quietly and without fuss - even the Queen has worn a black veil and "kissed the Papal ring", (twice) which signifies subservience. "End of..." as they say.
The C of E accepts it and does nothing, as far as I can see.
The next "round" will be RC and Islam - and that will surely be the clash of the Titans!
CJH, Worcester says...
10:49am Sat 5 Jul 08
Common Sense, Pershore says...
2:24pm Sat 5 Jul 08
I take it you can get Google and all the other Search Engines?
As it says below - "enter what you see above".
logicalN, Malvern says...
12:12am Sun 6 Jul 08
Paranoia rules!
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Forthright, Worcester says...
10:23pm Fri 4 Jul 08
Running New Labour and pressing for faith schools we never asked for and now getting lottery money?
I thought the Lottery didn`t fund religious projects?