A ‘TIN tabernacle’ from a village near Winchester is set to be re-erected at its new home in a museum for historic buildings.
The corrugated iron chapel at South Wonston was taken down in 2006 and is due to be restored this month at the Weald and Downland Museum at Singleton in West Sussex.
The Victorian building is considered a fine example of the cheap buildings built during the Victorian religious revival.
The scheduled completion date is April 5 when the museum hosts a visit by the Duke of Gloucester as the final part of its 40th Anniversary Celebrations.
The church was a daughter church of Wonston Parish Church and was erected in 1909 to serve a growing population in an area some distance away from the parish church. It was in use until 1996 when the population of South Wonston had outgrown it and a new church (St Margaret’s) was built next door to the primary school.
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