Go-ahead for works 'to preserve and enhance' historic chapel

Building is currently on Heritage at Risk register

- Phil Corrigan Local Democracy Reporter

PLANS to restore the historic ‘Cathedral of the Potteries’ have been approved.

Re-Form Heritage secured £521,737 of funding from Historic England earlier this year to carry out extensive repair works at Bethesda Chapel in Hanley, pictured above.

The Grade II*-listed Methodist chapel dates back to 1819 and since closing for active worship 40 years ago it has deteriorated badly, and the building is currently on the Heritage at Risk register. Stoke-on-Trent City Council has now granted listed building consent for a raft of internal and external repairs to the chapel.