Scaffolding will be up at the church until December while workers tackle a rising damp problem.

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Rising Damp was originally based on a stage play by writer Eric Chappell, in which Warrington also starred.

BBC: Rising Damp to return on stage with UK tour

Like many domestic sitcoms from the 1970s, Rising Damp now feels terribly dated.

BBC: Rising Damp rises again on stage

As a result, Graham is more keen than Warrington for the new Rising Damp cast to fit a familiar mould.

BBC: Rising Damp rises again on stage

Classic sitcom Rising Damp is to return on stage for a UK tour directed by one of its original TV stars.

BBC: Rising Damp to return on stage with UK tour

Rising Damp started life as a play titled The Banana Box, which introduced the shabby landlord Rigsby and his equally shabby boarding house in 1973.

BBC: Rising Damp rises again on stage

Rising Damp was also made into a feature film in 1980 starring Warrington and Rossiter, but without Beckinsale who had died the year before, aged 31.

BBC: Rising Damp to return on stage with UK tour

The clash lasted 6 minutes 20 seconds and featured more references to "Miss Jones" than an episode of Rising Damp before the chairman, David Davies, intervened.

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Other showbusiness names honoured include actor Chiwetel Ejiofor - who has appeared in Inside Man, Love Actually and American Gangster - and Rising Damp star Don Warrington.

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