Friday, February 10, 2012

Dec 2011: A rather sad church in Wembley

Now I cannot remember what the heck I was doing but anyway, here’s the Parish Church of the Ascension in Wembley.

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Ah I remember, i had to take a call from my boss, on a frikking Saturday, and thus had to park on the side. So decided to take some pics while I was walking around. Here’s a side of a house. Interesting patterns these drainage pipes make against the white background, no?

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So there’s the church. It has some nice features, specially the steeple. I dont believe I have ever seen a steeple of this shape and size.

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It has a roundish octagonal cupola with a rather stubby Crucifix and below that are four panels with a hatched cross mark stone grating. Below that is a sculpture of the Crucifixion.

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Walking towards the church and now its hidden a bit behind the trees.

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The church has definitely seen much better days, the surroundings were really dodgy and dirty.

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A lovely thick tree, but on the ground, you could see a whole mess of garbage and plastic bags and and and. Notice the windows are covered by protective mesh. Sad.

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Nice windows in this tower like structure.

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Looking back at the spire.

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Some berries? Holly?

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Services…

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Coming around in the front.

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A memorial garden

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The front windows were in the wars, couple of the diamond panels were knocked out and damaged, poxy vandals.

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A Celtic Cross carved into the stonework and sadly,  graffiti with a Hindu God’s name…

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Another play area with a memorial plaque…

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The church was closed, but the lines of the doorway are clean…and lovely…

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Looking up at the church window…

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I started walking around the side, here is the disabled entrance..See the mesh covering the windows on the right hand side? Looks sad.

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A well maintained path around..

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But as soon as you turn the corner, it looks dirty…

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More mesh..

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You wouldnt walk there, you just know this place is dodgy and full of drug needles and stuff

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So I hotfooted it out of there. Danger of Death, eh? next to an electricity sub station unit…Or was that a sign that God will strike you dead?

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