8 weeks to go

This shows the size of the new entrance hall the scaffolding has now been removed and the back wall plastered. A lot happens here in a week. By the end of Friday most of the glass for the windows and doors will be installed.

The plasterers moved in on Monday, they have made a vast difference in a short space of time . Here is the corridor from the main foyer, fully plastered and in the foreground can be seen the window fitters installing the glass to the doors.

The floor to the classrooms for the play group are finished and the boarding of the walls is well under way. This side of the building should be plastered fully by the end of next week.

9 Weeks to go

This is the view into the corridor from the main foyer, here we can see the scree floor being laid.




























Work is progressing at a fair rate and the door and window frames are now being installed.

A new year but the work continues

Well the roof is nearly finished and the scaffolding has come down so the church is now starting to look finished from the outside. You can now feel how big the new building will be when it is completed.








Whilst the work outside is nearly completed the work inside still continues at a similar pace.


The first fix for the electrics, plumbing and carpentry is nearly finished and the plasterboarding of the worship hall ceiling is well over half done.

Lets not forget what is happening in the other parts of the building, here is the start of the scree floor being laid in the classrooms of the family centre.

Here we can see the finished floor and the piping of the soon to be gents toilet.

A Roof at Last

Well the building is starting to come together, we now have a nearly finished roof. The inside is also changing, the first fix for the electrics has taken place and a brave bunch of people from St John's installed the cabling for the PA system and Data cables.

The month of January is going to be very busy, with the roof being completed, the windows being installed, the floor being laid in the family center and the plaster boarding of the roof in the worship area.

The view from inside

As you can see, most of the internal walls are complete and 6 church members have spent a happy few days doing manly things with cat 5 cables. This will give flexible use of IT, telephony and visual comms in all the rooms in the building.

The next step is to finish the roof - hopefully by Christmas.

Roof ready for tiling

Not a lot seems to have happened but the roof covering has started to be fitted and the scaffolding has been removed from the inside, and moved to the worship area. The other side of the roof will be started in the next few days.

Roof Timbers

What a difference a couple of days make. On Friday all that could be seen were the wall plates, but come Wednesday afternoon nearly all the roof timbers are up over the family centre.

The roof timbers are in place

The finished walls are just visible under the covering, whilst the roof timbers can be seen going into place over the non-steel frame section. Praise God for fine weather and the good progress made.

The back wall is finished!

The bricks have reached full height on the back wall as the bricklayers progress at a fantastic rate. The building is really beginning to take shape!

Bricks and Mortar

After the screed and the steel frame came the bricks! Officially we are now just two days ahead of schedule because of a delay in the council approving the specific bricks we are using. But the speed of the brick-layers means that we may well be a week ahead again by the end of this week – the walls are going up at a fantastic rate.

The Church Building Project Team are being bombarded with decisions such as colour schemes for window frames and toilet cubicles, and where we want plug sockets and light switches. There is a lot of information and at times we struggle with the responsibility of knowing whatever we decide, the church has to live with it for years to come – please pray for us.