One of the UK's leading suppliers of castings has helped to restore a 800 year old church, which was gutted by fire on Christmas Eve 2007.

Majorfax, the Walsall provider of machined and finished castings, has supplied architectural grille castings to St Nicholas Church, Peper Harow, Godalming, as part of a £1.5 million renovation of the church, which is being undertaken by Valley Builders.

The new castings will be used to replace the original grilles in the 14th century church, which suffered extensive damage to the tower, roof of the nave and to the internal stonework and ceilings.

Nick Smith, Technical Sales Manager at Majorfax, said: "We were approached by Valley Builders to quote for the job and went down to conduct a site visit.  We saw the extent of the damage to the existing castings, measured up and worked with the site supervisor in person to develop rough patterns.

"We understood the importance of careful restoration on this project and ensured that wesupplied the parts as a cast finish, so they are in keeping with the church's historic design.

Ensuring the castings fitted in with the church's other fixtures and fittings was quite a challenge but we managed it."

Dave Annetts, Contracts Manager for Valley Builders, which has undertaken the renovation said: "Majorfax were recommended to us by another manufacturer and were able to meet the specific brief for this restoration project.

"We were very impressed with their expertise, service and ability to produce quality castings on time and on budget."

The church, which was in regular use before the fire, is due to reopen its doors to thepublic this month.