St Helen's Church in Eston, now a suburb of Middlesbrough, was abandoned in the mid-1980s. Due to continued attack by vandals, the Council decided to demolish it because of its ruinous state.

Beamish was invited by the Church Commission to dismantle the church in 1998 and having moved each numbered stone, eventually rebuilt it, as accurately as possible at the Museum using traditional lime-mortar. It is the oldest, most complex and carefully reconstructed building that Beamish has ever moved and will be set in the late Georgian period, which corresponds to an 1822 rebuild of the church.

Phase 2 of the project is the internal fit out and landscaping, and we need your help! Donations will be put towards the offering of some 1829 box pews, the re-assembly of a mediaeval Font, and the hanging of a 1598 and 1760s bells.