They’re back!
July 31st, 2009 David
A team of scaffolders arrived at the church early this morning. Curiosity got the better of me and I had to find out what they were planning.
Bizarrely, they’ve been asked to move some of the top stone sprockets - the small pieces of shaped stone running along the spire edges - because they were wrongly positioned during the rebuild.
It sounds very odd to do this some months after removing all that expensive scaffolding, and I’m trying to find out some more information.
A lot of people - myself included - have commented that the sprockets don’t seem as evenly-spaced as they were originally. But I didn’t think anyone would suggest going up there and repositioning them.
They’re putting up ladders this morning to take a closer look. And next week they plan to errect some scafflding to complete the work. This will involve removing the sprockets and pinning in new ones.
It can’t be a cheap job so I wonder who’s going to take the blame - and expense - for putting it right!
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It’s 22 April 2009 and the final piece of scaffolding has just been taken away. The top part of the spire, damaged by the earthquake more than a year ago, has been completely rebuilt. And the chancel roof repaired. 
Sunday 18th January is the great day when the reguilded weather cock finally regains its perch high above the village. 
It’s now mid November and father and son team, Richard and Matt, together with Robin, from Cedar Steeplejack, have passed the half-way stage of the rebuilding work. 
Architects, Parkinson Dodson Cheung were appointed by the insurers to oversee the repair of the spire. They were really helpful during the recent spire climb, taking time to show villagers the damage, as well as explain how they planned to tackle the repair project.
The team from Cedar Steeplejacks have been here for a couple of weeks. Provided the weather continues to be kind, they hope to have completed the dismantling of the spire by this Friday (5th September).