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The first thing we did when we became owners of Christ Church was to build The Hut as a temporary dwelling for us while we construct The House and restore The Church. Coincidentally, almost to the day 13 years later, we have begun to take it down. However, we are still living in it! The parts we are removing…
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12 years!
Today marks 12 {happy hard working} years of Christ Church Living! When we officially become the owners of Christ Church one of the first things we did was to build The Hut and here Owen is nailing down the floor in the living room. Now, with the same hammer (note a very similar t shirt!) and joined by Fred and…
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Booklet featuring Christ Church
Welshpool Rotary Club have published a booklet ‘Welshpool Personalities – Issue 10’ which features an article on ‘Why did Christ Church close’, written by Roger L. Brown. We were invited to write and appendix on how we see the future of Christ Church. It is available from Welshpool Tourist Information Centre, priced £1, with all profits going to Water Aid.
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TEN years of Christ Church life!
Today marks TEN years of being the proud, crazy, petrified, brave, naive, determined, eccentric and at times overwhelmed owners of Christ Church. And what an amazing decade it’s been… 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013… There have been TEN years of hard graft, laughter, researching, carrying, planning, sweeping, hammering, rearranging, sawing, digging, wheelbarrowing, scaffolding, scraping,…
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Launching ‘Converts’
Owning a church is quite a unique experience, especially when converting part of it into a home for our family. We have had a huge variety of issues to consider and ‘challenges’ to overcome pertinent to the fact that it’s a church, and in the process we have learnt so much. We have had to draw on our own resources…
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9 Years!
Nine years ago today we became the proud owners of this fabulous Victorian church. It’s been an amazing journey so far. We have learned so much, not only about restoration, building and the building’s heritage but learned a lot about ourselves. This project has become our life and what a fascinating one it is! We’re not tired of it yet,…
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Wreck of the Week
We’ve just been featured on a restoration website ‘Wreck of the Week’. Take a look at http://www.wreckoftheweek.co.uk/p/project-church.html
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why did you buy a church? We weren’t looking to buy a church or even a house. We spotted Christ Church for sale in a local estate agents window and drove around Welshpool looking for it. We could hardly believe our eyes when we eventually found it. We made an appointment to view inside and upon entering the building, completely…
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Buying Christ Church
We purchased Christ Church from The Church of Wales in 2003, by which time it was in a poor state of repair due to it standing empty after it closed in 1998. Our first task was to build our temporary living accommodation, which we affectionately refer to as ‘The Hut’. Inside the hut we can keep warm and is a…
