SUNNYSIDE CHAPEL
Contract Let For £13,000 A contract of £ 13,075 was signed for the construction of a chapel at Sunnyside Hospital yesterday. The successful tenderer was J. N. Grant, Ltd., one of six. The price is exclusive of furnishings. Sunnyside is the first of three chapels planned as a result of money obtained in the combined chapels’ appeal to the public. The building, in concrete and brick, is due to be started next month. A foundation stone —the organisers are seeking the help of the United States Navy to obtain a suitable piece of Antarctic rock—will be laid later in the year, possibly about the middle of March.
‘‘The chapel will be opened towards the end of the year,” the chairman of the Sunnyside Chapel Committee (the Rev. G. D. Falloon) said yesterday, when he announced the signing of the contract.
The chapel would be detached from the hospital on a site made available by the Ministry of Works. It would seat about 200 persons, he said. Attached to the chapel will be chaplains’ consulting rooms.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 14
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