St Saviours church - Bacup Feb 15

[Mr beady]

First day of visiting derelict sites of the year, having been here in 2012 and since upgrading camera several times and improving my photography a hell of a lot I thought it was time to see how the church was doing after it's on/off access. Answer is not a lot has happened.

The church was consecrated on Monday, the 23rd of January, 1865. Representatives of the local Wesleyan, Baptist and Independent churches were present at the service.

The total build cost of the church, nearby school and vicarage was £8,000.

The church, 120 ft. long and 53 ft. wide was built in the Early Pointed Gothic style from stone with pillars of polished red granite. Seating accommodation was provided for 1,000 people. The tower, which stands on the north side of the chancel, is surmounted by a spire 150 ft. in height. A small transept was built on the south side of the church. It was used originally as a pew for the Holt family but later the font was transferred to this chapel from its former position in the chancel. The church contains a baptistry for the immersion of adults. It is sunk in the chancel floor and is covered by an ornamental grating.

The Church held it’s final service in October 2007 and has since had repairs to the roof in the north aisle to prevent collapse.

 

[smiler]

That is good, I liked the pic of the lectern,Thanks

 

[Conrad]

Nice shots, being so used to seeing churches maintained and just being able to pop in one as I walk by it's weird to see one in this state . I tried to play a game of spot the difference with your blog post from 2012 but gave up.

 

[flyboys90]

Nice clean looking visit,ace photos.

 

[night crawler]

Very nice though it looks like someone has taken the grating off the walk in font if that is what it is near the altar

 

[Dugie]

Mr Beady I visited here on Saturday the 7th Feb and two lads turned up who i went over to and said hello, was it yourself ?

Dugie

 

[Mr beady]

I were there the day after!

 

[Dugie]

Ahh ok so it has had some traffic lately then

 

[UrbanX]

Nice one that really is beautiful! What camera have you plumped for?
That floor looks a little...lumpy?
Thanks for sharing

 

[Dugie]

Nice one that really is beautiful! What camera have you plumped for?
That floor looks a little...lumpy?
Thanks for sharing

Under the carpet where it is lumpy is a baptism pool complete with tap and plughole, one of our group fell in it but he was fine as its very shallow and the thick red carpet slows down the descent

Dugie

 

[cunningplan]

Nice looking place and photos, Thanks