page_title: Poole Methodist Church
section_title: Renovation
hierarchical_section_title: Poole Methodist Church / History / Renovation
caption_attribution_description: English: Poole Methodist Church from the rear, displaying extension nominated for the 2016 Carbuncle Cup (for "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months").
context_page_description: Poole Methodist Church is a nineteenth-century Methodist church on Poole High Street in Dorset, England. An extension to the church was nominated for the 2016 Carbuncle Cup for "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months".
context_section_description: In the summer of 2009, the church was closed for safety reasons after plaster from the building's walls started to fall off.  An application was made that year to renovate and extend the building, to make it the centre of Poole's methodist community. The project was estimated to cost £4 million, and was accepted in 2010. Phase one of the project was completed in 2014, with the introduction of a new café; the project received around £200,000 from the Garfield Weston Foundation. The church's windows were later replaced by double glazed windows. The new extension was completed in 2016, with the church rebranding itself as "The Spire". The extension replaced a previous Georgian chapel. In 2016, the extension was nominated for the Carbuncle Cup, an annual award given to "the ugliest building in the United Kingdom completed in the last 12 months". The Guardian described the extension as "a pile of site Portakabins they forgot to remove."
caption: The church from the rear, showing the extension
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