It’s going to be church business as usual inside Bath Abbey over the coming months – and years – as work starts in earnest on the multi-million pound Footprint Project which will both stabilise and heat the floor and provide new rehearsal and meeting places – plus a visitor experience.
It’s all thanks to a grant of nearly £11 million pounds from the Heritage Lottery Fund – and ‘match’ funding from donors.
Project Director Charles Curnock met me to peer into the sizeable excavation underway outside the Abbey shop on the corner of Abbey Courtyard.
Charles wanted to reassure church users that – though sections of the interior might be closed off from time to time – it would be business as usual with no curtailment of musical events – in addition to church services – either. The doors of the Abbey remain open to its visitors too.
I wanted to know what digging had discovered so far.
You can find out more about the Footprint Project via http://www.bathabbey.org/footprint
