The start date of the Friends was Michaelmas 1976 although the constitution was not finalised until 1979. The committee decided
that their first project would be the South Chapel as and when funds were available. The proposed order of the work was:
- limewashing and repairs to the walls
- a low rail around the brass
- new altar
- a new bench and kneeling rails.
Some of this has been changed since then, I imagine when the St Matthew Chapel on the corner of Wet Lane was closed and
items brought over to St Michaels. That was when the South Chapel was renamed.