Ed builds a burial chamber for when he’s Dead Sheeran!
He plans tomb under church floor in grounds of £3.7m estate
WITH a pub, underground music room and tree house, Ed Sheeran’s property already has everything you could need in life.
Now it seems the pop star is preparing for the afterlife.
The 30-year-old has submitted plans to build a burial chamber underneath the church being constructed in the grounds of his £3.7million country estate.
The singer, whose hits include Shape Of You, was given permission to build the two-storey chapel in 2019 and it is now under construction at his home near Framlingham, Suffolk.
But he has submitted amended plans to East Suffolk Council to include a crypt.
The documents suggest it will be built underneath the boat-shaped church and will be accessed through a stone slab.
Drawings show the chamber would measure around 10ft by 6ft – big enough for at least two grave plots. If the plans are approved, Sheeran – who is worth around £220million – could be buried in the grounds of his home.
He originally failed to get permission for the chapel – but his scaled-down plans were later approved by his neighbours and the parish council.
In previously submitted documents, his architects, Donald Insall Associates, said the chapel would serve as a ‘private place of retreat for contemplation and prayer, for celebration of key life and family milestones’.
It added: ‘It would also allow the applicant’s family, friends and colleagues to be able to enjoy these things and join them in their observance. The proposed building would be a space truly ancillary to the main house but apart from it in order to provide calm and separation.’
The original application also stated the chapel would host marriages and christenings. And that
Sheeran was keen to provide a space at his home for international guests who have different faiths and customs.
The church will have a lobby and a nave downstairs, a spiral staircase – which leads to a small gallery – and an altar. It will have a lead roof, flint walls and a round tower.
The building is on the edge of Sheeran’s property, north of the main house, Wynneys Hall, which he shares with wife Cherry Seaborn, 29, and daughter Lyra, one.
The plans also show the private chapel will be concealed by trees and it will be warmed by a heat pump. Sheeran also asked for permission to alter the building’s service enclosure to hide the pump, which extracts heat from the air.
He has also requested to add two windows to the building and make a 12in extension to the chapel’s stair tower.
Sheeran bought his first home in the village for £900,000 in 2012. Overall, he has spent £3.7million buying five houses to create his estate, dubbed Sheeranville.
He has also shelled out an extra £3million on renovations and additions, including a pub, tree house, underground music room, tunnels and a wildlife pond.
But Sheeran’s country estate has been met with controversy.
In June 2019, the singer had to fight to keep two pub signs he put up without planning permission.
He had been ordered to remove them from the Grade II-listed barn that he had turned into a boozer – but in a U-turn, the council granted retrospective consent.
Sheeran was also told he could not swim in his wildlife pond as it provided a natural habitat for frogs, newts and dragonflies.
‘Contemplation and prayer’