St Theodore's Restoration
  
St. Theodore's Church was built for the expanding industrial town of Port Talbot. Its location in Taibach placed it cheek by jowl to various tin, iron and steel making processes. As a consequence of industrial pollution the exterior and interior fabric of St. Theodore's Church suffered.
It was determined in 1994 to undertake a Restoration scheme to mark the centenary of the consecration of the Church in 1997. By the time that Fr. Amos SSC arrived as the new incumbent in July 1996 £12,000. had been raised but it was realised that greater activity would be required if the envisaged £250,000 Restoration would take place - just as well that it was not appreciated at that point that the real costs would infact be double
The nave of St Theodore's Church
looking to the Steel Works.

Why do it ?

A question asked by some who thought the money could be better spent. However, Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot built the Church not as a museum in memory of her brother and sister but as a place of worship. Influenced as the family was by the Oxford Movement the Church was built To the Greater Glory of God for which one of the leading architects of the day, John Loughborough Pearson R.A. was appointed. The parish not only had the heritage of a magnificent cathedral like church but understood that it was built for continued worship and prayer within the Anglican-Catholic tradition. To restore the Church to its original beauty was to restore the honour to God and act as a mission in itself seeking to draw others to pray and worship in beauty and holiness.

  
 

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