This respected piece of architecture with a dense and difficult history represented a significant design challenge. A diminishing congregation and the need to expand the school were drivers of the design. Based on the recognition of the close connection between schooling and worship, the project adroitly wraps a series of classrooms around the roof of the main worship space. The wickerwork originally intended to spread across the roof is now expansively proliferating. This weave at the centre of the space underlines the intended blurred connection between the old and the new.