DETAILS
HOUSE Hawkesbury Chapel
LOCATION Sackville North, NSW
INITIAL BUDGET $350,000
FINAL COST $450,000
DATE COMMENCED March 2019
DATE COMPLETED November 2019
EDITOR'S FAVOURITE
THE GLASS BRIDGE THAT LINKS THE OLD CHAPEL WITH THE MODERN EXTENSION AND PAYS HOMAGE TO THE PROPERTY'S HISTORY, WITH THE NAMES OF THOSE BURIED IN THE ON-SITE CEMETERY ETCHED INTO THE ROOF
back in 2013, Simon and Lauren purchased a 1.5-acre riverfront property that housed a 60sqm derelict sandstone chapel and cemetery. Labelled a “high-risk ruin” by the bank and warned against it by family and friends, the couple found the opportunity was “too seductive to refuse”, and
