 The bats are living in the church's lead roof |
Special care is being taken to protect bats during a seven-month restoration project on a Lincolnshire church roof damaged by a tornado. Four species of bat live in the roof space of the Grade I listed All Saints Church in Moulton.
The work, costing around �400,000, is being done while they hibernate and involves special entry and exit points.
The four species of bat - pipistrelle, soprano pipistrelle, brown long-eared and whiskered - are protected by law.
English Nature, English Heritage, the Lincoln Diocese and the church's insurers, Ecclesiastical, are being consulted before the scaffolding goes up.
Project architect Helen Weatherall said: "The scaffolding has been designed to ensure there are entry and exit points for the bats and the contractors are all very aware of where the bats are likely to be found."
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