Our Welsh Chapel Dream

Now that permission has been granted, Keith and Marj start work in the main chapel hall, removing the pews, parquet floor and large pulpit. Keith visits a fellow potter, and Marj makes a discovery in the once-pigeon-infested Sunday school ceiling vents.

With the chapel being unliveable for many more months, Keith and Marj have come up with a radical idea to sleep onsite a lot sooner, in the shape of a shipping container in their car park, which they hope to transform into their first official finished bedroom.

The Great Pottery Throw Down's master potter Keith Brymer Jones and his partner Marj Hogarth are back with a new series, as they continue their quest of turning their 163-year-old chapel in Pwllheli into their dream home, complete with a pottery studio and a community hub. With planning permission approved for their audacious plan, Keith and Marj set out to transform the downstairs of the Sunday School into their living accommodation. With their hearts set on a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and snug, first they must rip out the fungus and try to control the dreaded dry rot that has infected the chapel. The rot's biggest victim is the original staircase, but Keith and Marj are determined to see the loss as an opportunity, and set out to instil some original character back into their now blank lobby, by rescuing the hall's century-old pendant lighting. The plan is to cluster them together as a feature fitting to go into the space where the old staircase once stood. Local builder Hew Owens is the man helping to bring Keith and Marj's living accommodation vision to life, starting by transforming one of the Sunday School offices into a kitchen. Keen to re-use and recycle, Keith and Marj source an 80-year-old English Rose kitchen, heralded as a British design classic. And to celebrate British craft, Keith and Marj are planning to install a sink with a difference. It's then a race to get the kitchen into shape so that they can finally enjoy a home-made cup of tea in the heart of their new home. 

The new series continues, as The Great Pottery Throw Down's master potter Keith Brymer Jones and his partner Marj Hogarth continue their quest to turn their 163-year-old chapel in Pwllheli into their dream home, complete with a pottery studio and community hub. Keith and Marj set their sights on turning the old school room into their snug. Marj restores a baroque French chair, while fellow Pottery Throw Down judge Rich Miller helps Keith to make brutalist tiles for a feature wall. And Keith and Marj take a break from forging the chapel's future to visit the National Library of Wales to discover Capel Salem's fiery past...