A GUIDED tour of All Saints Church will take place on Saturday to celebrate the completion of the £300,000 repair work.

The work, which started in July, was needed to refurbish damage to the outside of the church and its tower that had occurred over time.

Now, the National Church Trust and the Archdeacon of Bolton, Revd David Bailey, have been invited to take a closer look at the quality of the repairs up close before the scaffold is removed.

The church, built between 1821 and 1826 at a cost of £13,729, is recorded in the National Heritage List for England and is designated as a Grade I-listed building.

Built with a tower rather than a spire, the Gothic Revival church is one of many others built to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Ian Orrell, a fundraiser at All Saints, said: “Work on top of the tower is almost finished.

“There were a few cracks and some problems with the stonework and some parts became quite dangerous and therefore needed urgent attention.

“The work on the church is all but completed but the actual scaffolding will not be fully removed until February.

“Unfortunately this tour is not open to the public, but they will soon be able to see the finished work in all of its glory.”

The main contributor of funds for the building work came from English Heritage, which cares for 400 historic places in the UK and has donated £180,000.

Recycling and waste management company Viridor donated £50,000 to the cause and grant giving trust Garfield Weston Foundation have pledged to donate £12,500.

The church made up the remaining funds to reach the £300,00 total.