This is the way a beautiful painting was painted at St Mary's Church. A much loved shrine for people to come and visit.

Below the shield, on the carpet stretching down the centre of the mural painting, will be seen the initials and dates:

"R.H. 1378" and "D.H.T. 1921"; they are those of Roger de Haddiscoe and David Thompson, with the dates of the establishment of the original shrine at St. Nicholas' and of its restoration at St. Mary's.

What started as a hole in the roof has resulted in a tragedy for St Mary's Catholic Church in Great Yarmouth as we will see as this journey unfolds

From beauty to disaster in one bad night's weather where wind and rain came from the wrong direction to leak through the hole in the roof and soak into the walls below.

This damage to the painting alone  is estimated at £300,000 - £400,000 to restore!

A temporary roof costing £12,000 to protect the walls and the roof structure, (it was also rotten) whilst the Church tried several times to obtain grant funding for the structural repairs.

Work starts to get the concrete roof slates replaced with Welsh Slate tiles. A grant for £148,598 that came from government’s Cultural Recovery Fund through Historic England’s Capital Works Programme was granted to enable this work to take place.

The roof is off the timbers are rotten and all will be well when the work is done

Work completed the concrete slates have been  replaced with Welsh Slate tiles. Grant funding was found in time to enable this work to take place.