Heart Home magazine Issue 12 August 2014 | Page 11

Act Of Devotion
PHOTOGRAPHS by RICHARD PARSONS
WORDS by GREG COOK

A Victorian corrugated-iron chapel has
become Nick Kenny’s unusual home, and
shrine to interior furnishing through
imaginative recycling.
There’s a big difference between making your home
unique and choosing something completely unique
to be your home. Even more unusual still is artist
and craftsman Nick Kenny’s extraordinary residence,
located in a picturesque and historic town near the
north Kent coast, which appears to fall into both
categories.
The property is a singular looking church built at the
end of the 19th Century from prefabricated sections
of corrugated iron and affectionately known as a
‘Tin’ Chapel. Once mass produced and erected in kit
form all over the country, most in England have now
been destroyed, although many can still be seen and
are still used for their original purpose in countries
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