Restoration and Re-use of Penarth Cemetery Chapel

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Penarth Town Council wishes to convert the Chapel at Penarth Cemetery into both a flexible community space within lower Penarth enabling local community groups to hold meetings and classes and to see the Chapel restored and able to be used for Memorial Services, to celebrate the lives of those interred in Penarth Cemetery.The cemetery chapel has remained largely unaltered and in regular use until 1985. At that date a Baptist congregation who used the chapel for their services moved to a new chapel on Elfed Avenue. Once the Baptists had left, the Town Council decided that the chapel should be converted into a machinery store and workshop. The interior fitted woodwork was stripped. The main west entrance was removed and replaced by a pair of metal doors within a new brickwork frame, and the south door and part of the window above were also taken out and a door for machinery to enter the building was created. None of the doors or stonework was retained though some of the stones from the south window were retained but moved. In 1994 the mortuary house on the opposite side of the narthex or covered way was converted into a mess-room and other facilities for council staff working at the cemetery and a public toilet block were made out of the vestry. The boiler house below the vestry was blocked off. In 2004, the chancel arch was walled up with blockwork and some of the wooden floor was replaced with mass concrete to carry new heavier machinery.To facilitate this conversion of the Chapel, a modern building will need to be erected on the hard-standing area to the west of the chapel building to house the existing equipment in the chapel and to incorporate a workshop.NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=88264.