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

Design Team Meeting 6 September, 2012

There were new considerations for us at our 4th Design Team Meeting today.
Progress on the design work is on track, with lots of discussions about everything that needs to be included in our tender documents for pricing.
Today we were able to see more details about the types of light fittings that could be used in the fitting out of the chapel.
Also more limited test stripping has been carried out on the woodwork of the pews and the pulpit, so that we could see the quality of the woodwork below the later over painting.
We were also able to see a decorative detail from the pipes of the organ that had been covered over by later painting. This has initiated further research into the original paint finish, so that we might consider re-painting the pipes of the organ back to their original appearance.

Choices.
Possible light fittings laid out on the chapel floor.

Bare wood of one of the doors of a pew.

The bare wood of the pulpit with over painting in recent black and grey paint
over the earlier wood graining effect.

A detail from of of the organ pipes with red and gold detailing.

Start-up Design Team and FOGS Meetings

In June we held the start-up meetings of the George Street Chapel project following the approval of the HLF award to the Age UK Oldham of £1m and a match funding award of £100,000 from the Andrew Lloyd Webber and English Heritage Challenge Fund administered by the Architectural Heritage Fund .

Match funding is still needed. Particularly towards the cost of refurbishing the organ.

The Project Team

Project Team
centre: Yvonne Lee - CEO Age UK Oldham
Age UK; Lloyd Evans Prichard; The Morton Partnership; HLF
photo : Andrew Fielding

FOGS

FOGS - Friends of George Street research group meeting with
Julian Baum and Claire Duval - Take 27
Maggie Hurley, Jeff Hinchcliffe and Yvonne Lee - Age UK Oldham
Andrew Fielding - A&A Fielding Ltd
photo: Annika Dawson - Age UK Oldham