Last updated: 16th October 2008

The PCC agreed to recommend  the removal of  the pews, replace the floor and initiate an architectural competition.

We have sent a letter asking architects if they wish to express an intrest in the reordering.

The PCC will  launch an appeal in May 2009, sponsers and sources of finance are already being sought. The PCC has agreed to designate £15,000.00 toward the reordering project.

To date the building project committee has:-

• prepared a measured survey of the plan of the Church (AutoCAD LT);
• met with the congregation, to invite comments and suggestions for the building project;
• held a further public meeting with townsfolk and invited local organisations which further clarified needs and confirmed earlier proposals.
• extensively promoted all meetings in the local and county press.
• conferred with Diocesan archaeologists, church heating and ecclesiastical furniture specialists, and English Heritage all of whom support our proposals.
• produced a ground penetrating radar survey of the Church interior, undertaken in July 2007. 
• commissioned photographic records of high quality in early 2007, these will be a continuing reference source
• with support from the Council for the Care of Churches (CCC) prepared a conservation management plan (CMP).
  This document describes the church, its significant architecture and liturgical features, and its vulnerability.
  The CMP is a sound reference paper for all future works associated with St. Mary’s.
• commissioned a new website, to promote the appeal together with church life within St. Mary’s Totnes.