We asked Christine Smith, wife of the Vicar, to tell us about the ongoing restoration of St George's:

"The reason that the church is so valuable is that it is all in a piece - it's all Victorian - its not from different periods - it's all of a certain decorated style, by George Gilbert Scott, it's a wonderful decorated Gothic style.

There's a lot of soot around, after a hundred years of coal fired boilers - much of it has ended up in the roof and the stone work is damaged, because of past cleaning that didn't work.

This stone is quarried locally - it's limestone and porous and they had tried some high pressure water that soaked into the stone... it wasn't a good idea and it made things worse.

We don't get any public money - we have to go to heritage charities and places like that, so we'll be launching an appeal in October, we need funds to continue the second phase of the restoration work.

It's a six million pound appeal - it's very daunting - given that my husband is the only paid member of staff apart from the verger and we've no secretaries, no administrators yet.

St George's is a lovely church that just needs caring for and that costs money, unfortunately."