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Building work is now underway

The weather has finally allowed the building work to get underway.  At the beginning of the week the blocks were laid to establish the ground levels for the buildings and as the days have progressed Tim Redwood and his team have reached the sill height. Next week the door and window heads will be fitted and work will start on building the bell tower.   Tim Redwood   Friday 5th March 2010... 

New garden update – 20 January 2010

Work continues on the building of the Manor Garden at Capel Manor College. The recent snow and cold weather has hampered the construction work of the church and cloister garden, but the foundations for phase 2 of the project have been dug-out and a delivery of ready mixed concrete from Cemex is poured. Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player. var WT1_1 = { params : { wmode :... 

Foundations for the Church

Follow the building of “The Old Manor Garden” at Capel Manor College. Phase 1 to be completed by June 2010 will see the construction of a church (ruins) and cloister garden, wildlower meadow, moat, swimming pond and a bog garden. This video introduced by Mark Cook was taken on December 16th and shows three more deliveries of ready mixed concrete (four in total). The reinforcing mesh being... 

First load of ready mixed concrete

Follow the building of  ”The Old Manor Garden“ at Capel Manor College. Phase 1 to be completed by June 2010 will see the construction of a church (ruins) and cloister garden, wildlower meadow, moat, swimming pond and a bog garden. Its December 16th and diggers have dug out the foundations for the Church and the first delivery of ready mixed concrete is poured. Get the Flash Player... 

Work gets underway

Follow the building of  ”The Old Manor Garden“ at Capel Manor College. Phase 1 to be completed by June 2010 will see the construction of a church (ruins) and cloister garden, wildlower meadow, moat, swimming pond and a bog garden. Its December 16th and diggers have dug out the foundations for the Church and the concrete is delivered and poured. Images: Harris Digital Productions   Digging...