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Article: Cemetery chapel's fate in the balance.
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- Boston Standard (Boston, England)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2007
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THE fate of Boston's 150-year-old cemetery chapel will be decided tomorrow (Thursday) at a cabinet meeting of Boston Borough Council.
Heritage architects, local campaigners and council officers are now united in calling for urgent repairs to be carried out to save the Grade II-listed building from dry rot.
In his report to cabinet published this week, the borough's director of development Phil Drury recommends the release of more than [pounds sterling]9,000 to pay for urgent short-term repair works highlighted by the council's consultant architect.
"The expenditure will slow the deterioration of the chapel," Mr Drury states. "Officers will then ...