As it's a nice sunny morning nipped round to the church and took photoes of yesterdays's damage. I find that I rather exaggerated the size of the area damaged. It's difficult to estimate accurately from ground level, but I think the area of damage would be roughly ten or twelve feet long and three to four feet wide. Talked to a workman who told me that a good deal more will have to come down before they can start repair work. The brick showing below the flint facing puzzled me, but I am told that this turret (?) was attached to the tower in Victorian times to accomodate a staircase for the bellringers, replacing an earlier system of internal wooden ladders. Makes sense; although it's surprising that the later work is starting to disintegrate before the older medieval work. More later, perhaps.
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St Peter & Pauls in Harlington needed a lot of work...still needs quite a bit. Beautiful old church like that one in your pic.
If they were mosques they'd be given the money to sort it...
...behave Dinners
A magnificent structure - halcyon like...!
A magnificent structure - halcyon like..!
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost."
“It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.”
And the job that is finished soonest usually needs repair soonest!
I take your point GirlFriday, the bit that came down must have swooped like a Kingfisher!
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