City centre church added to at risk list

All Saints Church in Deansway had been added to the "at risk" list this year

A city centre church is a new entry on a list of buildings and monuments and battlefields at risk through neglect or decay.

All Saints Church in Deansway, Worcester, was added because its stonework and windows are in poor repair and there are issues with its electrics, the register said.

Worcester City Council has unveiled its 2025 Heritage at Risk Register, which will go before its planning committee on Thursday.

Parts of the medieval city walls are included, while the condition of number of Grade II listed buildings was also highlighted.

A Grade II listed pedestal tomb at Claines Church is on the register because the top section of its urn finial is missing, while the urn itself is unstable, and the Scala Theatre and Corn Exchange in Angel Street are the subject of a city council scheme to create a new arts venue.

The former Gaumont Cinema, most recently a bingo hall, was added to the "at risk" list last year

Parts of the city walls on the list are scheduled monuments and Grade II listed. Some parts of the medieval walls were repaired after a grant from Historic England, but others remain at risk after plant growth.

Meanwhile, collapsed boundary walls to the west and south of College Green were in "very bad" condition, according to the list, and a rebuild programme was yet to get under way.

Some repairs had been carried out at St Helen's Church in Fish Street, but stonework repairs in the tower were still needed.

It also noted work had resumed at a vacant building in Trotshill Lane East, Warndon.

The premises has been hit by anti-social behaviour and was damaged by fire in 2020.

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.