BritishAtHeart
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Hello,
Please bear with me, as this is my first official report.
Over the last few days, I had the fortunate opportunity to revisit n St. Georges Roman Catholic Cemetery in rural Alberta. Founded in the late 1800's and restored again in the late eighties it's a beautiful small site, surrounded with hills and at the other end, overlooking the salt flats sits an old wooden church.
As we opened up the big black wrought iron gate, clouds hung low in the sky making the aforementioned church seem creepy and foreboding. Sprawled before us, the small cemetery and fields surrounding seemed lonely and eerily quiet. After taking a wet walk (it had only been raining about an hour before) amongst the graves for a little bit, we decided to head up to the church, which was more interesting. The other building to the right was the bell tower, and the reason for this was because back when that church was in use, they didn't allow music in church. The structure itself is logs (which really stand the test of time) as well as slats of wood. The inside is simply beautiful, all wood, simple and very bowed because of the elements etc.
As far as I know someone is trying to save this place, there's plastic put up in an effort to shield it from the elements.
I also apologize for the quality of the photo's, they were taken with my IPhone, I didn't bring my camera because I didn't think we would get to go because of the weather.
Thanks for looking!!
Please bear with me, as this is my first official report.
Over the last few days, I had the fortunate opportunity to revisit n St. Georges Roman Catholic Cemetery in rural Alberta. Founded in the late 1800's and restored again in the late eighties it's a beautiful small site, surrounded with hills and at the other end, overlooking the salt flats sits an old wooden church.
As we opened up the big black wrought iron gate, clouds hung low in the sky making the aforementioned church seem creepy and foreboding. Sprawled before us, the small cemetery and fields surrounding seemed lonely and eerily quiet. After taking a wet walk (it had only been raining about an hour before) amongst the graves for a little bit, we decided to head up to the church, which was more interesting. The other building to the right was the bell tower, and the reason for this was because back when that church was in use, they didn't allow music in church. The structure itself is logs (which really stand the test of time) as well as slats of wood. The inside is simply beautiful, all wood, simple and very bowed because of the elements etc.
As far as I know someone is trying to save this place, there's plastic put up in an effort to shield it from the elements.
I also apologize for the quality of the photo's, they were taken with my IPhone, I didn't bring my camera because I didn't think we would get to go because of the weather.
Thanks for looking!!
