St John's has begun to be covered by a spider's web of scaffold. Metal pipes and wooden planks have been reaching up from the ground as the scaffolding has been erected on the south side of St John's. This will allow the church builders to remove, clean and repaint the water courses. 

As the scaffolding encases the church over the coming weeks, stone repairs will also be carried out. This will perhaps be most noticeable when the bell cote is worked on.

This is the beginning of making St John's interior water tight for many years to come and will allow work to be carried out inside the church in the future safe in the knowledge that water ingress will not damage what has been done.