By the early 1980’s, major repairs were needed to the church. After a great deal of discussion, the Donald Buttress Fuller Partnership (architects from Manchester) were appointed with a brief for a renovated church. On Easter Day 1988, we celebrated the old church and we then worshipped in the main schoolroom for nearly a year.
The work involved constructing a concrete and steel ring beam around the whole of the church, taking off the roof and erecting a new steel-framed roof with about 12,500 new Welsh slates, restoring stonework, electrics, heating etc.
A Thanksgiving Service was held on 11 March 1989.
This had been Phase 1 of our Vision 2000. Now it was time for phases 2 and 3. Everyone was delighted by the renovated church, but all the schoolrooms were dilapidated! This time a local architect, Paul Dinsdale, was appointed with a brief to create a suite of community rooms of high quality. That scheme was carried out and completed in 1994.
Phase 1 cost £300,000, and phases 2 and 3 each cost about £200,000 making a total of about £700,000 – a tremendous fundraising achievement!