St. Patrick’s Church’s steeple, bell tower deemed safe [Video]

Members of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church on Brunswick Street in Halifax say the church steeple and bell tower have been deemed safe and will not be demolished after all.

In August, a news release from the Concerned Parishioners of St. Patrick’s said they had contracted engineering firm John G. Cooke and Associates Ltd. to conduct an “intrusive” study of the church’s bell tower and steeple.

Parishioners said the company was hired to offer a second opinion on the safety of the tower and steeple after previous studies declared the 1885 structure to be “unsafe.”

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The news release says the initial study was “not based on a detailed examination of the Tower and Steeple using scaffolding and a lift.”

It adds the engineering firm that submitted the initial study recommended an “intrusive study.”

Scaffolding on the …