Alcester Church House

                            

  St Nicholas Church serving the community of Alcester

Announcing plans for a much-needed refurbishment of this important heritage property to provide modern facilities for St Nicholas Church, and a central meeting place for the community of historic Alcester.

£300,000 is needed to complete this project.  Donation details click here

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On other pages:

Brief History

Development Committee

Timber Frames

Upstairs

New Scheme

Key Dates

 

This Week

Events

St Nicholas

Alcester Minster

 

On other sites:

Alcester website

 

 

Ground floor

Conservation points Pictures and proposals (click here for scheme)

Front Room (The Mission Hall)

(7.2m x 6.4m) Good size meeting room with wood block floor, gas fire, electric points, false ceiling.

Retain original character.

Retain and refurbish block floor

Retain skirting board and dado.

Retain back wall.

Retain fireplace

Replace false ceiling with new acoustic system. 

 

 

 

  

   Hatch through to new kitchen

Side passage to kitchen

 

 

 

 

 

  

Steps replaced - door to school room replaced by new door to new kitchen.  End window replaced by lengthened corridor to new office and toilets.

 

Kitchen to become Office

(2.8m x 2.8m) Small with low ceiling beam, gas and electric points, but cold water only

Retain wooden ceiling beam and joists above

 (This beam is under exposed truss in upper room)

 

 

  

Back (school) room to become new kitchen

(4.9m x 3.4m) Brick floor, fire place, door to stable passage

Retain floor if it looks like original slabs – cover over for use.

Retain/ expose cladded ceiling beam if wooden, otherwise, if it is a steel RSJ, it can be moved or altered

Retain fireplace with tile surround?

 

 

  

Door to stables to be blocked off.  New windows, fitted units and cupboards etc.  Hatch through to main front room

 

Back stable passage/ stairs

(L shape: 2.3m x 1.8m and 3m x 1.0m) Brick arch to Old Rectory sideway, wood ladder/stairs

Retain chamfered brick arch but may be filled with brick (currently boarded on wood frame).

Retain beam through from kitchen.

 

 

  

Old stairs area to become store through from office.

New disabled toilet accessed from stable door

New stairs in passage way to outer door. 

Stable Room

now the new toilets!

(4.5m x 4.5m) Half height wood partitions with doors and other stabling features

Wooden partition and internal doors retained.  New matchboarded internal walls. Old door becomes entrance to disabled toilet. 

 

New    June 2010

         

Passage past old door to disabled toilet      New entrance door

        

    Gentlemen                                         and Ladies

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Passage Way to Rectory

On 1754 Brooke estate map in Warwick Records Office and 1884 Ordnance Survey Map in Alcester Town Hall

 

 

 

  

The passageway provides a ramped access to the new toilets.

 

 

 

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