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<h1 class="story-header">Sheffield Cathedral submits bid for lottery money</h1>
<BR><div class="caption body-width"><img alt="Artist impression of new entrance at Sheffield Cathedral" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57168000/jpg/_57168753_courtyardviewcloseupofentranceatnight.jpg" width="464" height="261"> <span style="width: 464px;">The cathedral has put together
a bid for £980,000, which includes plans to create a new entrance</span> </div>
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<BR><p id="story_continues_1" class="introduction">Sheffield Cathedral has submitted a
bid for almost £1m to improve access to the Grade I listed building. </p>
<BR>Last year an initial grant of £31,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)
was awarded to help develop the bid.<BR>
<BR>Canon Simon Cowling, who has led the project, said the church would now wait
until March to hear whether it would be awarded a grant of £980,000.<BR>
<BR>The church said it hoped to double the number of visitors, if funding was
awarded.<BR>
<BR>It said it was concentrating its efforts on improving its "access, education
and heritage" as part of the bid to update the building which dates back to
1430.<BR>
<BR><div class="caption body-narrow-width"><img alt="Artist impression of inside new entrance of Sheffield Cathedral" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57168000/jpg/_57168752_entrancehallperspective111014copy1a.jpg" width="304" height="171"> <span style="width: 304px;">The cathedral said the new
entrance would add to the footprint of the existing building</span> </div>
<BR>The funding would be used to provide level access to the the existing
entrance on Church Street.<BR>
<BR>Mr Cowling said the new entrance would create a "definite discreet welcome
area for people". <BR>
<BR>"This is part of a long-term vision for the cathedral, the first part of
which was realised in May 2007 when we opened the north side of the building,"
he said.<BR>
<BR>"We won't be changing the character very much at all. It's not a sort of
massive re-ordering of the building, I would describe it as a
refurbishment."<BR> <BR><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-16061387">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-16061387</a><br><br>
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