Overview
- St James' Church in Dry Doddington is seeking just over £100,000 to replace the failing wooden floor, replaster damaged walls, and upgrade its single plug electrical system.
- Worship continues with safety warnings because stone slabs have shifted and the floor has sunk and cracked.
- The church warden has launched a GoFundMe, and villagers have run fairs to raise money after £100,000 of work in 2015 kept the tower standing.
- The 14th-century tower leans 5.1 degrees, more than Pisa, and church leaders say they will not try to straighten it.
- Locals attribute the tilt to clay ground and a lack of deep foundations, and underpinning in 1918 halted further movement.