Watch vicar climb to top of Worthing church spire to raise money for repair bill

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00:30Hi I'm Father Stephen, I'm the rector here at St Andrew's Taring and I've just been up

00:41to the top, very top of the spire, we've got steeplejacks working up there at the moment,

00:45we're having two faces of the spire completely re-shingled in cedar and been up there today

00:50right at the top, incredible views of all the way around the downs, the sea, the whole

00:54of Worthing and beyond. I must say I was a bit less scared than I expected, I quite used

00:59to climbing rock faces but on the rock face I sort of know what I'm doing whereas a ladder

01:03that seemed to go on endlessly into the sky I wasn't so sure about, but once I got to the top

01:07it was great being up there, clipped myself in, had a good time, had a good look at the view,

01:10took a few selfies and come back down safely, all to raise awareness and money for our campaign to

01:16pay for the shingling, we haven't had to pay the steeplejacks yet, I hope they're not listening,

01:19but we will have to pay them soon and we're hoping to raise a bit of well-needed funds to

01:23support the project.