St. Helen’s Church sits at an elevation of approximately 47.6m AoD. The site is bounded by Church Lane to the north, Church Street to the east, Isaac’s Lane to the south and Frederick Road to the west. The work consisted of a series of five test pits located over various points on the footprint of the proposed construction of a new Community Room building, with a connecting corridor leading to the north-western corner of the church's north aisle. All of the test pits across the excavation area were sealed by the same topsoil deposit, which was situated over series of made ground deposits, likely to be modern in date. This is substantiated by the presence of possible buried topsoil deposits at a depth of around 0.75m in two of the Test Pits, which in one of them contained modern debris. It is likely that the made ground deposits are part of a programme of landscaping activity undertaken during the 20th century, during which the headstones of the churchyard were removed and repositioned around the churchyard boundary. Therefore, it is unlikely that any archaeological remains will be encountered down to a depth of approximately 0.75m throughout the proposed construction works. The third Test Pit contained the only archaeological finds from the excavations, in the form of two grave markers: one headstone and one possibly chest tomb or plinth for a larger monument. Neither of these were uncovered to such an extent that any inscriptions could be seen; nor could it be conclusively demonstrated that they were in situ, although circumstantial evidence would arguably favour this, and that they were buried by the landscaping works rather than moved. In the case of the headstone, which could have been more easily moved like those around it, this may be due to it having fallen many years previously and becoming overgrown with turf. If these markers are in situ, they may provide a useful indicator of the depth of any burials that may be uncovered during the construction works, although given the variation in burial depths, this should be treated with caution. It does, however, mark the level of the original ground surface prior to the landscaping activities.