The Restoration Project

St Antony of Padua is embarking on the biggest and most ambitious restoration project in its 147-year history. After much consultation in recent years, the Diocese of Brentwood and English Heritage gave permission to St Antony’s at the beginning of 2020 to proceed with the restoration of the sanctuary.

The sanctuary works include the cleaning and repairing of the stonework behind the altar including the reredos (the original decorative screen). This work began in March 2020 at a cost of approximately £0.5M.

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In addition to the sanctuary restoration, time has come to undertake important renovations to the remainder of the church if we are to continue to enjoy this outstanding iconic Catholic building in east London.

The improvements we need to make to the church are:

• Repair and refurbish all toilets in the church (including disabled toilets)

• Repair the flooring throughout the church

• Repair the pews & kneelers

• General decoration

• Lighting and electrical

• Fire alarm system

• PA system

A technical team of construction professionals and our appointed architect, Anthony Delarue, worked together to look at what the building needs to meet our current and future needs. Our cost plan indicates the total amount we need to restore the sanctuary and make good the rest of the church is £1.5M. The cost of restoring the sanctuary is approximately one third (£0.5M) and was mostly covered by the generous donations so far. The remaining work will be in excess of £1M.

We kindly invite you to consider making a donation to support this important work.

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