Denholme's St Paul's Church now open as stunning B&B

Sean and Debs Kennedy-Tallis spent just under £500,000 on turning the dilapidated St Paul’s Church in Halifax Road, Denholme, into a four-bedroom home for themselves.

It is now valued at between £950,000 and £1m.

They bought the church in its original damaged state for just £85,000 at auction in September 2017. They also got married during the renovation project work.

Part of the renovated church is now open as a B&B (Image: Newsquest)

Now it has become what Mrs Kennedy-Tallis describes as a "unique and opulent" B&B.

They welcomed their first guests on New Year’s Eve and are now taking bookings for more people to experience their converted church surroundings.

St Paul's Church in Denholme has gone through a dramatic makeover (Image: Newsquest)

A one-night stay for two people at the church is charged at £150 per night.

It is priced at £275 for two nights for two people, while three nights for two people costs £375.

A sofa can convert into a small double bed which is priced at an additional £50 per person per night. All of the stays include a continental-style breakfast.

The couple's conversion project has been featured on BBC One’s Homes Under the Hammer, which gave an update on the home in an episode broadcast in June 2021.

They hope to carry out conversion work on the church’s bell tower in the future.

Here's how St Paul's Church looked before (Image: Sean and Debs Kennedy-Tallis)

Debs said she is happy that the church is now open for business as a B&B.

She said: “It’s a lovely place and I think we have done it really well.

“We’re quite excited by it and it was nice to get the conversion done by New Year’s Eve.

"We spent just short of £500,000 on it.

The bathroom of the church which is open as a bed and breakfast (Image: Newsquest)

“We did it all in stages really. We had a couple of open days before Christmas for people to have a look around it.

“It’s in a church and staying here is opulent and unique.”

The Grade II-listed church was built in 1846 and closed in 1999 due to dry rot.

It remained untouched until Sean and Debs started their work on it.

Another image inside the bed and breakfast section of the converted Gothic church (Image: Newsquest)

The church also features a graveyard which has been tidied up as part of the project.

To stay as a guest at St Paul's, or for more information, call Sean on 07552 494847 or Debs on 07836 799437. You can also send a private message to The Restoration and Conversion of the Church of St Paul Denholme Facebook page.

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