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Church gets help from above

Despite suffering serious structural problems which had led to the cracking of its rafters and the failure of previous repairs, the roof of a Grade II listed church in South Wales has been successfully replaced in a contract involving A R Manley & Sons Ltd (a Member of the British Woodworking Federation).

The Church of St Sannan at Bedwelty, Caerphilly, features an unusual layout with two 13th Century naves seperated by a stone archade. While the north aisle still retains a historic Medieval oak 'wagon' roof, the weight of the high collard roofs over the south nave had caused the walls to spread by almost a metre. Work on the naive in the mid 20th Century saw the origional roof replaced with an A-frame structure, but by the late 1990s, had failed extensively, and more radical intervention was needed.

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