Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 19th September, 2024)

I wonder if anybody has actually been resurrected under there.
Think I’d run off if that happened.

It looks replaced to me. The slates are definitely not Welsh slates. They look too plastic to me. The gate too looks modern. I didn’t know the gates were known as ‘resurrection’ gates. The parish church in
W/h has one. Every time I pass I will remember that. It is the original one despite the body of the church being burned down unfortunately. The tower is still in place and the gate.

Veronica the church is a Grade One listed building So I'm sure any repairs have to be sympathetic with the original structure, and authentic as far as possible.

Ah that’s good then Ron.
I suppose it needed replacing the age it is.
The ‘slates’ look like mine over the front door which are modern.

I have just flown past and tapped on the roof. It’s made of wooden shingle!

St Wilfreds are looking for funding to repair it's leaning spire.£500.000 needed
https://www.wigantoday.net/news/people/save-standish-spire-appeal-halfway-to-its-ps500000-target-but-time-is-running-out-4597850

The roof tiles are shingle like those beachside houses you see in New England.
Lolly, they are close to reaching that target but more misfortune has occurred. Death Watch Beetle has been discovered in the ancient roof timbers above the altar.
I sent a photo to PAD showing the scaffolding up behind the Rood Screen, another small fortune and perhaps up to two years to complete the work.
I hope it appears on PAD as it’s a lovely photo.

Colin, a good photo of a different view, and with Ron writing about it being a listed building it makes sense that wooden shingles were used Woody, and they've now weathered with moss and bird droppings - better on there than on someones head.
I came up Rectory Lane on Wednesday on my way to Leyland and noticed that there was some graffiti sprayed on the bridge wall as you go under it, I only glanced and it looked like 'Redundant' something or other as I couldn't catch whatever was wrote afterwards, anyone else seen it?

Cyril, If you notice I think there are two bridges close together. I assume that the railway line and the bridge are no longer in use and therefore redundant. It might be a warning to workmen which is which.

Redundant Span and Active Span Cyril.
It's on because if a tall lorry crashes into a Redundant Span they won't need to stop the trains.

I too was thinking that the wooden tiles reminded me of those you see on beachside houses in New England

Cyril, it says REDUNDANT SPAN. Also "ACTIVE SPAN" is written on the other bridge. It's not graffiti, I would assume it's to tell anyone who needs to know, say in the event of an accident, which span of the bridge is still in use by the railway and which is not.

No gutters on the roof in those days it seems, but it looks good.

Thanks Colin, TFC and John, I hadn't seen it before, though it isn't very often that I go along there.