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The investigation had revealed several rotting timbers which had allowed the metal tie-rods to loosen and the church walls in that part of the building to lean outwards.
All was well with the world until one Sunday evening in the autumn of 1999 when one of the congregation remarked that the suspended ceiling in the church seemed to have dropped a little in one corner.
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A couple of weeks and £22,000 later, the church building was condemned, the roof was propped up with scaffolding and we didn't know what we were going to do about the Harvest Festival.
The investigation by a local firm of structural engineers and the subsequent emergency safety work cost £12,000. The load-bearing scaffolding which was now taking the weight of the roof and which went right through the church floor into the cellar below was bought for £10,000.
That might sound a lot for a few metal poles but it was a sound investment. It has already worked out thousands of pounds
However, there turned out to be a matter of more immediate concern and that was the state of the roof over another section of the church. This part of the roof was described as having a "congenital defect" in that a pyramid shaped roof structure had been placed
