Thursday Doors – August 04, 2016
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This week’s submission to Norm 2.0‘s Thursday Doors.
Thursday Doors is a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favourite door photos from around the world.
OK, I’m cheating a bit today. This is a closer view of the door to a church I photographed last week and posted earlier today.
It looks like the doors, and the building, have seen better days and I wish I had spend a bit longer looking around and making some interior shots too. It was not till I started processing the image that I noticed the scuff mark on the door, Indicating the the lock has been removed at some time, allowing the locking bar to swing freely.
It’s pretty amazing what nature can do to unattended buildings. The yellow brick is typical in this area, being made from local clay, it takes on the yellow colour rather than the brick-red many of us are used to. There are many old buildings in the area in excellent condition, but without heat in the winter, the building rapidly declines, as frost gets between the bricks and mortar, splitting them apart. I’ve started looking through the county archives to get a bit of history of this unidentified church.
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It’s so sad when these wonderful old buildings are abandoned and left to decay. Instead, on several of my hikes through Southern Ontario, I’ve seen so many lovely little churches and school houses that were converted into homes. Imagine what a beautiful home this could have been!
True. There are many in the area which have been salvaged. This one may be beyond that point. How does that even happen?
I know!! Mismanagement comes to mind.
Somebody probably dreamt of it being a church again and passed the point of no return.
feels like the window and door frames are holding this building up.
We have a historic Catholic Church here in town that has been closed for several years and is starting to show broken windows and other damage. It’s sad but reality.
So sad that it can’t be repurposed. I’ve seen several become local museums, antique shops, or art galleries.
We have one in another town that they turned into a restaurant which is pretty interesting. But, this beautiful granite stone building built in the days of Irish workers coming to the US is going to be torn down.
I bet this was lovely in its day. That’s interesting about the local clay being yellow.
It sounds like it was a thriving community in the early 29th century. I’m looking for archival photos.
Beautiful shot Ed. A reminder that nature is quick to reclaim what we humans build.
Thanks Norm.
Amazing