TV stars renovating Welsh chapel into dream home 'here for good'

TV stars renovating Welsh chapel into dream home 'here for good'5 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleDanielle HerbertBBC Wales Patch DolanKeith and Marj have got a lot of attention from fans of the show visiting PwllheliThe Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer Jones and actor Marj Hogarth are on a quest to transform a 163-year-old chapel in north Wales.Embarking on series three of a Channel 4 show documenting their renovation, Our Welsh Chapel Dream, Keith and Marj hope to turn Capel Salem, in Pwllheli on the Llŷn Peninsula, into their dream home.Keith and Marj paid £200,000 in cash to buy the property in September 2022 and moved in over a year ago. But the hard work is far from over, as they take on the next stage of renovations.Keith said the couple get "quite a lot of drive-by fans" while they are working on the property. People even offer to take the pair out for a drink, Marj added.Cyngor Gwynedd planning documentsThe Grade II-listed chapel and adjoining Sunday school measures 6,500 sq ftKeith said he started looking for a new place to live during lockdown, including old petrol stations, cinemas, libraries, "anything that basically wasn't a house", he said."This chapel came up in north Wales, in a place I couldn't pronounce, which I can pronounce now... we both can."He said the chapel "looked amazing" and was listed at a price they could afford. "We knew it was derelict, it would have been unoccupied for 14 years, but we jumped in the car and went to have a look at it, and that was that really."Keith felt like he was coming back to his "roots" as his parents were from Swansea and Cardiff.Marj had never been to north Wales before but found out that her father, who was a salesman of marine engines, had Pwllheli as his patch. 'Everyone has a story to tell about the building'The couple said they felt like they had found their tribe in Pwllheli, adding: "...