£1m plan to improve historic Norfolk abbey

Plans to spend up to £1m on enhancing Wymondham Abbey and improving facilities for its 30,000 annual visitors, as well as its congregation, have been drawn up.

A working group, including the Vicar of Wymondham, the Rev Canon Christopher Davies, was tasked by the parochial church council in November 2007 to look into an ambitious £1m project to modernise and extend the Grade 1 listed building having been shelved more than four years ago because of problems raising the funds.

The latest scheme would involve the reorganisation of the existing structure, and making use of existing foundations whose original buildings were destroyed during the Reformation under King Henry VIII's rule.

“We instructed architects and they have drawn up preliminary plans which were presented to the abbey council last week, and they have given the first stage approval. We are consulting widely as part of the process and will be asking the whole congregation to comment,” Mr Davies explained.

 

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