Restoration is underway on the tower of St. Michael Archangel Roman Catholic Church in Belleville, September 19, 2017 (Photo: Tim Durkin/Quinte News)
It will be a couple more months before the public gets to see the refurbished tower on St. Michael Archangel Roman Catholic Church in Belleville.
St. Michael’s church tower has dominated Belleville’s landscape on Church Street for the past 130 years.
This year the parish undertook a restoration project of that part of the building.
Parish priest Reverend Richard Whalen.
He says it has been 25 years since the last time work was done on the structure.
The work wraps up in November.
Whalen says the parish has not received any grants, and the people of the parish are paying the more than $600,000 cost.
He says it is worth it since the tower “reminds people to look up to the heavens.”
