As odd projects go, this is one of the odder: a new tensile-fabric roof over one end of a stabilised, part-restored, ruin. St George's Garrison Church in Woolwich has quite some artistic and military history. It still has an interesting interior, even though until recently it was open to the weather and is officially still on Heritage England's 'Long-term building at risk' register. But not for much longer. The church was built in 1863 to serve the huge military garrison there - still present, though much reduced. Architect Thomas Wyatt designed an imposing Italianate building based on the taste of his client, secretary of state for war Lord Herbert. He wanted a church like the 1846 neo-Renais-sance-Romanesque one his uncle had built at Wilton near Salisbury. Wyatt obliged - on a smaller budget, but he 'got the look'.
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