HPA in the News Again with the Refurbishment of Yealand Church

This week sees the end of the refurbishment and reordering works at St John’s Church, Yealand Conyers, near Carnforth. The building dates from the mid-Victorian era, since then it has seen few major changes.

In 2011, the PCC embarked upon an ambitious project with HPA to make the building more accessible to the village community.

The church has been re-ordered, making the main space more flexible for services, concerts, lectures, and other activities. Two new meeting rooms have been created to provide a home for the ever-growing Sunday School, and also to create smaller rooms which can be used by community groups at other times.

A new brew station has also been created in a discreet location at the rear of the North Aisle. Finally, a 4KW array of solar panels have been placed within a roof valley, which cannot be seen from the road, to generate electricity for the church to sell to the grid.

The project has now been the subject of a review on the Blackburn Diocese Website.

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