Site Meeting of Project Team, HLF, EH and AHF

Yvonne Lee CEO Age Uk Oldham (front centre) welcomes sponsors and the project team
(photograph by Andrew Fielding)

Left to right -
Henry Owen-John; Head of English Heritage North West
Sara Hilton; Head of HLF North West
Gavin Richards: Architectural Heritage Fund

The Project Team lead by Yvonne Lee, CEO of Age UK Oldham  met with the major heritage funders today to allow them to see the chapel before restoration works begin on 4th February.
Attending was Henry Owen-John, Head of English Heritage North West; Sarah Hilton head of the HLF North West and Gavin Richards of the Architectural Heritage Fund who are administrating the grant awarded by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Challenge Fund which is made up of £100,000 - £50,000 each from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and English Heritage. The HLF award is for £948,2000.

Our Project Team is made up of architect John Prichard of Lloyd Evans Prichard, building contractor Adrian Walker of Lambert Walker; Sandy Roy, HLF architectural advisor; Jeff Hinchcliffe, project manager; Sue Redmond, Age UK Oldham and Laura Whalley, HLF case office and Andrew Fielding, heritage advisor.

Everyone appreciated the opportunity to visit the chapel and see it as it is now before the plaster is taken of the walls, the pointing is raked out, the roof is dismantled etc etc. Check out this blog to keep up to date with the works as it progresses.

It was another freezing cold day with snow on the ground. See how the chapel looked today -

Front elevation.

Rear elevation