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mikleed wrote:

Teifi wrote:

mikleed wrote:I think the new Cathedral at Coventry is a revolting design nothing at all to typify English building....again rubbish, and the interior.!
Mike.

Gosh Mike - what a response who threw your toys out of the pram? No need to be so vitriolic!

Teifi sorry to be so abrupt but my feelings of English Architecture is more of the Medieval approach to Buildings Cathedrals, and Churches

Regards
Mike.

There I was thinking I had made a post about how moving the destruction of the original Cathedral was after the bombing, the timber cross etc.,
contrasting with the experience of passing through into the New - and not meaning to tread on anyone's toes at all.

So Mike you're forgiven - for now - but I've studied 'your' photograph and know what you look like - upset me again - BEWARE!!!

Teifi........I upset you ?......and me with a Staffie !.......The timber cross was an afterthought.
Mike.

Keep looking over your shoulder - coming up to my ancestral lands in a couple of weeks!

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From where..........Pet ! ! !...........I notice your search area is Halesowen, where I was born, and loads of old family in Rowley as well
Mike.

Been checking up on me, eh???

We are visiting relatives in Stourbridge and Cradley Heath and various hostelries in between! So we could be anywhere ....

Teifi have no fear not checking on you....just your profile !.....I meant where are you coming from, your visit to Black Country....not where you are going
Try Ma Pardoes !

snoopysue wrote:

Antie Em wrote:Here's the link for the above http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/gr ... 9_p_1.html

Interesting, I think it's okay - as you say better than demolishing it. In my home village they turned a chapel into housing, and pebbledashed it to hide where they'd bricked up the old chapel windows - I think it should have been kept as original as posible on the outside. One good thing though - the graveyard is still there and can't be touched - it's not part of the property.

I think you are referring to St Martins Sue?

I visited there in the early 1990's and the grave yard was very extensive surrounding the old church and stretching way back but also overgrown and strewn with litter. There were some memorable old MIs in the shape of iron coffins/cannons- a bit hard to describe but never seen them elsewhere. I returned a decade or so later and the area was being cleared for the new housing estate. I wrote off to the church diocese as many of my family were buried there and was informed any remains-mostly coffin furniture had been respectfully reinterred in the cemetery down the road. A small corner of the old cemetery of St Martins remains but is a fraction of the original extensive burial ground.

Some more useless info - I have a copy of the act of parlianment allowing St Martins to be relocated and rebuilt at Lower Church Lane (recently restored on C4 Grand Designs). There were to be no bodies buried beneath the floor or interred within the walls of the new church- somewhat of a relief I should imagine to the current inhabitants.

Carol wrote:
I think you are referring to St Martins Sue?

I visited there in the early 1990's and the grave yard was very extensive surrounding the old church and stretching way back but also overgrown and strewn with litter. There were some memorable old MIs in the shape of iron coffins/cannons- a bit hard to describe but never seen them elsewhere. I returned a decade or so later and the area was being cleared for the new housing estate. I wrote off to the church diocese as many of my family were buried there and was informed any remains-mostly coffin furniture had been respectfully reinterred in the cemetery down the road. A small corner of the old cemetery of St Martins remains but is a fraction of the original extensive burial ground.

Some more useless info - I have a copy of the act of parlianment allowing St Martins to be relocated and rebuilt at Lower Church Lane (recently restored on C4 Grand Designs). There were to be no bodies buried beneath the floor or interred within the walls of the new church- somewhat of a relief I should imagine to the current inhabitants.

No, it's a small welsh chapel in the Flintshire village of Sychdyn. Has two or three terraced houses attatched to it (itself having been split up in to two houses. Hasn't been used as a chapel in my lifetime - the last christenings were held there in 1969. There is another chapel in the village - which is amazing as until the 1970's there weren't that many residents!

Oh Yes- I didn't read properly did I - IO spotted St Martins and went off on one!

mikleed wrote:Teifi have no fear not checking on you....just your profile !.....I meant where are you coming from, your visit to Black Country....not where you are going
Try Ma Pardoes !

Salisbury - now there's a real cathedral that should suit you Mike - lots of interesting architecture in Cathedral Close.

Teifi we have been there you are right it is glorious
Mike.

Didn't know it was St. Michael ....thats made it more interesting !
Michael.