All saints church - harlow hill

The Church building (Anglican) known as The Church of All Saints is a Grade II Listed Building. Formerly opened in 1871 as a cemetery chapel. The church was designated as a Grade II Listed Building in 1975. By November 2006 the building was closed due to wet rot and dry rot. Subsequent structural movement resulted in the closure of the church in 2009 as the building was considered unsafe and services subsequently ceased. With de-consecration taking place in 2014 the building was sold for the intended use as a chapel of rest. The cemetery is still an active grave site.
Location
HARROGATE, NORTH YORKSHIRE
what
CONVERSION + RESTORATION TO FORM A PRIVATE DWELLING . GRADE 2 LISTED
when
CURRENT PROJECT

all saints church

The Church building (Anglican) known as The Church of All Saints is a Grade II Listed Building. Formerly opened in 1871 as a cemetery chapel. The church was designated as a Grade II Listed Building in 1975. By November 2006 the building was closed due to wet rot and dry rot. Subsequent structural movement resulted in the closure of the church in 2009 as the building was considered unsafe and services subsequently ceased. With de-consecration taking place in 2014 the building was sold for the intended use as a chapel of rest. The cemetery is still an active grave site.

Being a Grade II Listed building the structure is of special interest and warrants effort being made to preserve them. In purchasing the listed building the new owners are aware of how carefully alterations need to be considered and hence the process embarked on to discuss openly the intended proposals with Conservation and Design to both implement renovation and restoration works hand in hand with any new alteration and insertions. Buildings are listed for their character and appearance and as such major additions or extensions need to work alongside the existing building and land about it.The building has been the recipient of heavy handed and inappropriate repair e.g. sand cement pointing with no regard for the original joint width or use of lime mortar. Sadly since being empty and unused the building has been subject to vandalism and marked building decay.

The proposed residential use for private occupancy has been established a and the building is to receive both a restoration programme of works and the insertion of a ‘house within the house of God’  as a living pod within the embrace of the original church structure.

The new structure will formed using steel columns built of a ground bearing structural slab within the Nave with circulating aisles either side of a lowered seating area. A platform at first floor level is to be formed with non load bearing timber partitions formed enclosing the private bathroom and bedroom spaces, with the existing scissor trusses and rafters on view within the interior spaces. Access to the main upper levels is via two staircases –a straight flight at the Western Window elevation and a spiral staircase within the Crossing.
Location
harrogate, NORTH YORKSHIRE
what
CONVERSION + RESTORATION TO FORM A PRIVATE DWELLING . GRADE 2 LISTED
when
current project
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