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Wroxham Hall, the Trafford Family Tourer and the Chapel of St Helena and St Michael on the right of the main building (to which it was joined by a glass cloister) almost hidden behind the hedge, circa 1930. When the Hall was demolished in 1954 the chapel fittings went into store pending the building of the new St Helen's in Hoveton, but Bishop Leo Parker appropriated the corrugated iron chapel itself (built by Boulton and Paul of Norwich) for use as a scout hut in Northampton. A very similar chapel (built by Whitmore and Binyon) has been preserved at the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket, Suffolk. Mostly associated with the Non-Conformist tradition, these chapels were known irreverently as "Tin Tabernacles". The Wroxham Hall chapel was unique in having a thatched reed roof placed over the tin one which made it unbearably hot in summer.