St Donard Templar Priory Project - The Knights Templar Order

Templar Time Capsule - Priory Update

A Templar time capsule went into the wall of one of the Priory bedrooms this week. The carefully wrapped package contains a Templar badge, necklace, KT information and publications and a Message to the Future. As is the way with these things, we have no idea as to whether or not it will ever be found, but imagine how the men in charge of another full-on refurbishment - perhaps more than a hundred years hence - would feel to find it!

Also included was a copy of this week's local newspaper, and a link back to what is already the distant past:

We chose this spot for the Time Capsule on account of it being where we found something somewhat similar, which had been left for the future a hundred and fifty years ago. Back in 1873, the then owner of the house, Comber militia leader Robert Todd, signed and dated a piece of new plaster as the property underwent an earlier massive modernisation and upgrade.

Our Time Capsule contains a photograph of the piece of plaster, so Robert Todd's gesture to the future may re-emerge again one day, long after we are all gone.

Above: Jim puts the Time Capsule in place in the window reveal. Below, the wall when fully boarded and ready for plastering.

The same room as George gets on with the plastering. We're flying now!

While George presses on with the plastering, we expect delivery of the big dining room window, plus the other remaining back windows and door. Once they are in and the place is completely weatherproof again, we'll be ready to move on to the final - really expensive - jobs.

Those are the second fix electrics and the central heating system, and at that stage we are going to need at least £20,000 - and quickly.

If we don't get it, we will be able to keep George busy for a few weeks with various little jobs, but in terms of real progress, without the electrics and the heating in, progress will grind to a halt.

It's such a big sum that the usual, always much appreciated, Widow's Mites and hundred buck donations won't cut the mustard. Frankly, we're going to need one or two EXCEPTIONAL donations get us over this hurdle and see us sprinting towards the finishing line.

If you're not in a position to be that very special donor, please give whatever smaller amount you can afford, but also join us in prayer that the good Lord moves the fortune and soul of someone who can make that big difference. Deus Vult!

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Templar Time Capsule - Priory Update

Also included was a copy of this week's local newspaper, and a link back to what is already the distant past:

Our Time Capsule contains a photograph of the piece of plaster, so Robert Todd's gesture to the future may re-emerge again one day, long after we are all gone.

Above: Jim puts the Time Capsule in place in the window reveal. Below, the wall when fully boarded and ready for plastering.

The same room as George gets on with the plastering. We're flying now!

Those are the second fix electrics and the central heating system, and at that stage we are going to need at least £20,000 - and quickly.

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