The Princes Road Synagogue is due to get a
grant
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Details of a £1.535m blessing for North
West religious buildings are due to be announced on Tuesday.
English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund will
announce the grants repair package for the region's Grade I
and II* listed religious sites.
Among those to benefit will be St Vincent de Paul RC
Church, Liverpool. which will get £157,000 for specialist
repair work and restoration.
The church was desined by noted 19th Century architect E
W Pugin.
Timber investigation
St Vincent's, which was built in 1856-7, is to receive an
initial grant of £16,000 to fund a specialist timber
investigation and repair of gutters.
Another grant of £141,000 will fund extensive repair and
restoration work.
The latest round of funding has also helped places of
worship such as Liverpool's Princes Road Synagogue, a Grade
II* listed building.
The synagogue, built in 1874 with a fine painted and
gilded interior, has been offered £84,000 for re-slating of
the roof and eradication of dry rot. Other places in
Merseyside to benefit include St Clement's Church, Toxteth,
St Christopher's Church, Norris Green and Holy Cross Church,
Wirral.