Churches, Castles & Campanology

Churches, Castles & Campanology

Further to my spoiler of last week,

We did a small job on Dunster Castle,



We thought we could make do with a ladder but we needed a bit more serious kit.



Nice view from the top



Don't look down though.



We had to take the lead off the roof to enable timber repairs



It was a bit of a nitemare to protect, we couldn't afford ANY water to penetrate the rooms below, they are full of irreplacable antiques. So we had to provide extensive secondary protections inside the castle as further precautions.

Sorry, cant show pics from inside.



Blooming exhausting, getting all that lead off, but not nearly as exhausting as all the risk assesments & other health & safety paperwork.



But a nice job on a fairytale castle.

 

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Sorry John, that was a post under construction, I'd done it once & then internet explorer crashed & I lost the whole post :dh:

I thought the best way to do it was by post then edit.

You know the story from when we met on sunday, but for the rest of the group, i'll tell it again.

The trust were going on about how important the historic lead was, possibly 18th century.

When we started to get the lead off we were finding metric boards underneath.

I reported this at the next meeting, they shrugged this off as a coincidence.

150mm equals 6" exactly ?

The next meeting I told them we had found a date written under the lead, they looked excited, I said "It said Wimpey Homes, 2004"

 

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Whoa, Marley is getting dangerous :flag::flag::flag:

 

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You're not kidding.:wink:.....i can see that it will be loooong and very expensive :dh::lollol:

 

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I'd rather not say exactly where this church is on an open forum as there are some antiques thieves that target churches. One bloke was caught a couple of years ago with OS maps on his walls that had pins in the churches with steeples, as these were often older & therefore more likely to have antiques in them

I'll just say its in Dorset, if you really want to visit, pm me, except Dai, wouldn't trust him :D:wink:



This is a cressett stone. Before cheap lighters these were filled with tallow (Sheep or Badger fat) & had wicks in the middle.

As there are 6 of them, I guess they would only keep 1 or 2 alight & then move on to the next so the first could be re filled.

The whole village would use them as pilot lights, lighting their rush lights to take the fire home.



Had a couple of stone repairs to do on the tower.



Dorset is great in the autumn :autlv: The mists just roll off the hills into the valleys.

Autumn, season of mists & mellow hopelessness

 

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Oh my......how beautiful!!

 

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I've just loved all these pics. Thank you everybody.
I hope I'm in the right track but I love the etched glass windows at St Nicholas Church, Moreton, Dorset.
The original stained glass windows were blown out in the war and replaced with these.
Sorry no pic, but do see the link. I think gorgeous.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1389458

 

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Oooh they're good Alice. Is Moreton laurence of arabia's home church ?

Marley, didn't know the rest of that poem. Very good. Was going to ruin the ambience with a reference to monty pythons "We've come to read your poet" sketch but fortunately coudn't find a link.

So i'm going to have to link it to The Kinks again, sorry its a repeat, but I really like it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2618747993616339813#

 

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Yes Ziggy, Laurence of Arabia is buried in the Churchyard.

 

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What a beautiful poem, Marley.

Alice.....those windows are gorgeous....i havent seen anything like those before.