A former Catholic Church, the North, June 2014

[sj9966]

This Catholic church was completed in 1853 in what was originally quite a heavily populated area however due to the war damage and continuing slum clearances in the post war the church lost much of its congregation as the district was rebuilt as a business area. In 1998 it finally closed when a new replacement church was built.

Upon arriving there was a bloke onsite painting new white lines on the floor of the car park, after a brief exchange of words it turned out he was the caretaker of the site and he had no objections in letting us in through the front door!

A real nice bloke who even gave us each a book about the place as we were leaving!

 

[The_Raw]

Shame to see it in such a mess but there's still a lot of beautiful features left behind, you've taken some fantastic shots! Don't think I've seen the confession booths in previous reports.... Job well done mate

 

[skeleton key]

I do like that mate.

Sounds like the caretakers a very nice guy but fighting a loosing battle on this one

 

[shaddam]

blimey that place has seen better days !, nice of the caretaker though !

 

[Lara]

What a lovely place, love the ceiling and them windows

 

[Stussy]

Some really nice angles in there, superb work!

 

[Perjury Saint]

Nice man... Last 2 shots is ACE!!