I am back from my third set of misadventures over the large pond. A few weeks full of plenty of ups, downs, arounds and arounds involving narrowly avoiding getting arrested twice, encounters with local pastors, taggers and the smashy crew, dropping my camera, avoiding golfists, making random discoveries, some truly awful weather and other eventful things. More on all of those whenever I get the relevant photos up.
This place however falls squarely under the 'random discoveries' bracket. Whilst driving to another location I spotted a large building in the distance missing some tiles off the roof. As we got closer it revealed itself to be a church, and to be even more telling that it was indeed empty where there was once a bulbous steeple there was now nothing, like it had just been cut off. Spotting an invitingly obvious way in right on the street we spun the car around, parked up and ventured in, with none of us knowing what to expect. Needless to say when I saw the interior it took my breath away. What a place to stumble across. Finding a flyer in a rear room we found that the church had only been empty for around a year although at the end of it's life it must have been in a pretty dodgy state, the corner where the steeple once stood is rotten to the core with water ingress. And that is where we thought it would have ended, another abandoned American church. However, once we ventured into the basement we were confronted with what looked like a brand new door. Perplexed we pushed it open and walked into the space being used as a replacement/temporary church in place of the closed one upstairs! Not knowing if anyone was around we backed out fairly quick and made our escape.
As it stands it is one of the most beautifully complete and untrashed churches I have photographed.
Thanks for looking, more here https://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/albums/72157659543135561
Loads more stuff to come from the USA over the next week.
This place however falls squarely under the 'random discoveries' bracket. Whilst driving to another location I spotted a large building in the distance missing some tiles off the roof. As we got closer it revealed itself to be a church, and to be even more telling that it was indeed empty where there was once a bulbous steeple there was now nothing, like it had just been cut off. Spotting an invitingly obvious way in right on the street we spun the car around, parked up and ventured in, with none of us knowing what to expect. Needless to say when I saw the interior it took my breath away. What a place to stumble across. Finding a flyer in a rear room we found that the church had only been empty for around a year although at the end of it's life it must have been in a pretty dodgy state, the corner where the steeple once stood is rotten to the core with water ingress. And that is where we thought it would have ended, another abandoned American church. However, once we ventured into the basement we were confronted with what looked like a brand new door. Perplexed we pushed it open and walked into the space being used as a replacement/temporary church in place of the closed one upstairs! Not knowing if anyone was around we backed out fairly quick and made our escape.
As it stands it is one of the most beautifully complete and untrashed churches I have photographed.
Thanks for looking, more here https://www.flickr.com/photos/mookie427/albums/72157659543135561
Loads more stuff to come from the USA over the next week.
