Each artist contributed work to the static exhibition at the Reading Room & Chapel, the headquarters of the Beacon project. Above from left to right exhibits by Gillian Dyson, Jessica Voorsanger and Michael Dan Archer.

The Chapel was built in 1887 on land donated by the Allwood family of Rose Cottage, a Methodist family of carriers, the Reading Room was added in 1925 as the Sunday School. In the 1950s the Allwoods claimed to see flying saucers from the window of Rose Cottage which made local headline news. During the 1980s Jane Eaglen, who became an established opera singer, sang in the Wellingore Chapel annually with the Central Methodist Choir.

Deconsecrated in 1993, the Reading Room was used as a business premises. Bought in 1999 from the receivers by the Plowman family it has been converted into a home and studio.

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