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Saint Day parish church (roofless and de-comissioned)

Built in the 1830s and abandoned in the 1950s when the roof fell in. Now a shell but still impressive.
Saint Day is situated on a slight granite rise and this church can be seen from miles around.
Today there is a modest church across the road for the small number of C of E worshipers adapted from a terraced cottage, and a small chapel for the equally few practicing Methodists.
150 years ago there were many Methodist and/or Wesleyan chapels of different and often fiercely contested denominations (Wikipedia has a 34 page list of these!) serving the extensive mining communities here; nearly everyone belonged to one sect or another (vastly outnumbering the Anglicans).
Next to my parents house is a very large (disused) church for the Primitive Methodists; its most recent incarnation was a (very noisy!) workshop for agricultural machinery.
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38 comments

Fred Fouarge said:

Abandoned HFF For Yopu Andy!!
7 years ago ( translate )

Andy Rodker replied to Fred Fouarge:

No. I decided to upload my HFF tomorrow (Friday) for a change, Fred!
........LATER COMMENT FROM ME, Fred .... I changed my mind and you are right. The Sepulveda photo is suitable for HFF so I have made it so!
7 years ago

Dave Roberts 2014 said:

It still looks good, nice light and shadow!

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7 years ago

William Sutherland said:

Magnificent capture!

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7 years ago ( translate )

Andy Rodker said:

Eva,
Fred,
Dave,
William,
Thank you all!
7 years ago ( translate )

Roger Dodger said:

Not one I can remember seeing, interesting how such buildings get abandoned.
7 years ago ( translate )

Andy Rodker replied to Roger Dodger:

No options, Roger. When the roof fell in there were no funds to repair it. That, as they say, was that!

Today there is a small church across the road for the small number of C of E worshipers adapted from a terraced cottage, and a small chapel for the equally few practicing Methodists.

150 years ago there were many Methodist and/or Wesleyan chapels of different and often fiercely contested denominations (Wikipedia has a 34 page list of these!) and nearly everyone belonged to one sect or another (vastly outnumbering the Anglicans). Next to my parents house is a very large (disused) church for the Primitive Methodists; its most recent incarnation was a (very noisy!) workshop for agricultural machinery.

I'm going to add this comment to my notes if you don't mind!
7 years ago

Pam J said:

Beautiful light !
7 years ago

sasithorn_s said:

7 years ago ( translate )

Andy Rodker said:

Ron,
Erhard,
Pam,
Sasi,
Nick,
Thank you all!
7 years ago ( translate )

Simone Maurel said:

belle image et explication
7 years ago ( translate )

Yves Lurol said:

bel endroit et bien cadré andy !
7 years ago ( translate )

Boro said:

Joli cadrage !
7 years ago ( translate )

Ulrich John said:

That's really a fine presentation, Andy ! Good Morning !
7 years ago

Rosalyn Hilborne said:

Can't remember if I mentioned it already but I saw St Day on TV a couple of weeks ago on a property programme. Looked nice :)
7 years ago