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Record Breaker
Not quite church restoration related, but very much part of our family story here so I wanted to include this news in our Journal. Many of you will know that our son, Fred, is a keen cyclist and for the past 5 years or so has been involved in road racing. (He has also always been an avid reader of…
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Penson exhibition
Exhibition honours a pioneer We have been involved in an exhibition honouring the life and works of Thomas Penson, architect of Christ Church. John Hainsworth of the Llanfyllin Dolydd Building Preservation Trust has been the driving force behind the exhibition and it has been a joy to work with the steering group in helping to find out a little more…
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Photoshoot
We recently had the pleasure of being the location for a photoshoot for Bardo Jewellery. Cath of Bardo Jewellery has created a new collection called ‘Forget Me Not’ and wanted an atmospheric church setting to compliment her work for a series of syled images for her website and Instagram page. Photographer Vix of Pix by Vix did a fabulous job…
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More re-pointing.
Last week we welcomed back steeplejacks Sam, James and Mike to complete repairs on the more hard to reach areas of the church. The north-east finials were in dire need of re-pointing as water ingress was becoming more of an obvious problem. After a busy week, and with Karl working on one of the easier to reach finials, the north…
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Our new addition
We couldn’t let 2020 close without introducing our new addition to the Christ Church family… ‘Tacho’ – our now 6 month old puppy. She has settled into Christ Church life very well and we absolutely adore her. She is certainly a very positive distraction in what has been an unusual year, especially for the boys. She is a ‘Sprollie’ –…
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Tower repairs.
One major aspect of the restoration of Christ Church is the repair of the Tower. It is the part of the building that causes the most worry, especially during a stromy night! At 110ft tall access is clearly an issue. In the past we have hired a cherry picker to get to where we can to check over the stonework…
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The FINAL Victor’s Wonderful Wildlife
Here is a video compilation of the wildlife I’ve seen in the last week of Victor’s Wonderful Wildlife. Look out for the shot of the woodpecker on the birdtable! Thank you for all the support. XD Victor’s Wonderful Wildlife: part 18. We are so proud of Victor for completing 18 weeks of nature notes as part of his ‘home schooling’…
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Bird Table
This week me and my dad decided to make a bird table to give the birds some food to eat and so we could see what different birds live in the churchyard. Firstly, we found and cut all the wood that we needed to create this bird table. Then, we put the edges around the base so the seeds wouldn’t…
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The Oak Tree
By the churchyard there is an Oak tree overlooking the town. It was an acorn around when Queen Anne was the ruler of Britian in 1710 and the tree is 310 years old. I found this out by measuring the girth of the tree which was 6.20m and divided it by 2, so that gave us the answer of 3.10…
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Leaf Rubbings
I collected some leaves from the trees in the churchyard to do some rubbings of them. It helped me notice the different shapes of them. What I learnt is that elder and ash are compound leaves and the others were all simple leaves. While I was collecting the leaves a managed to find a shield bug on a leaf. Here…
