A new meeting room, kitchen and public toilet in the village?

Now that the building repairs to the tower of St Cadog’s Church are about to begin, we are turning our attention to raising funds to alter the interior of the church to include a meeting room / kitchen in the area to the left of the main entrance, and a disabled toilet in the base of the Tower.

The meeting room would double as a kitchen with the sink and equipment discreetly hidden by hinged bureau type lids. The meeting room construction would be a solid, dado level, wooden wall with glazed screen above, dividing it from the rest of the church and so aiding soundproofing so that the meeting room activities are not heard in the church.

The meeting room would have a gallery over, with staircase for access which would be against the wall opposite the main entrance. The gallery would incorporate a toughened glass panel fitted to the window which would form the side wall of the upper floor.

A new heating system and boiler would be installed, and the whole church would be rewired.

The main front and side doors into the church would be altered to be disabled friendly. The organ may be removed and replaced with a smaller electric organ which would be sited on the wall above the new gallery, displaying the pipes of the large organ.

Would your organisation use a meeting room / kitchen and loo if one were provided in St Cadog’s Church? We are trying to raise a Lottery People and Places Grant towards the cost of this work, but we need proof that the community will use the facilities.

Would you please write a letter to the Vicar, Rev Michael Cottam, The Vicarage, Walters Road, Llangadog, SA19 9AE advising him that you would use the meeting room, that the toilet would be very much valued by the community because the church is open every day and there is no other public toilet in the village, and that the addition of the kitchen would increase the type of occasion the church would be used. Do you have any suggestions we should consider?

Thank you.
St Cadog’s Church Repair Fund Co-ordinator.