Thames Anglican Church Calendar

Saint Georges, the parish church, has recently had an engineering survey done to ensure that she'll last another hundred years. Built during 1871, the first framing was blown down in a storm not unlike that of July 2007 when the building shifted a degree or two out of the vertical, only to settle back in a matter of days. [The only evidence being three doors that jammed].

Bullied into the process by nath-sayers and a heritage engineer after evidence of dry rot and random leaks in the lean-to section roofs, Vestry applied for and gained Lotteries Commission support for 70% of the $90,000 survey by heritage trades-people and professionals.

The outcome of some thirteen months of inspections and deliberations was three fold ~~ a need to re-roof the lean-tos leaving an air gap above the sarking; a need for rewiring to eliminate surface electrical wires and replace potentially unsafe installations; and to drive piles through the buttresses to hold the building rigid. Work has begun to secure quotes and then funding for the re-roofing job. The other aspects will be looked at as funding is at hand. As a Heritage Building Saint Georges has thirty years to comply with any issues around earthquake protection and engineering related to being a public place of assembly.