Parish Photo Gallery

Every picture tells a story.Memories are precious and nothing invokes them better than a photograph.

A record of events we hold from time to time

Our churches don’t look after themselves

We are always at work in the background, repairing, conserving, upgrading and generally keeping the churches neat, tidy and safe. These are some of the jobs recently tackled.

Deep clean & new lights

Back in January 2019 a kind parishioner volunteered to pay for a high level deep clean of Christ the King church.
However, after some negotiations we took the job on ourselves and cleaned it from top to bottom, every inch of the walls and ceiling was vacuumed! The money donated was used to upgrade the church lighting which we did whilst we the scaffold was up. New vestments for the altar servers were also brought.

Porch House Loft

When Porch House was being treated for deathwatch beetle the loft and ceiling timbers had to be treated.

The roof timbers in the section nearest the church — Wonderful wood

View through the door looking away from the church

Doorway from the church end into the main loft area

The wall is the top of the western end of the main hall

Above the doorway looking towards the church, chimney LHS

Castle Street end, front garden to the right

The floor before cleaning began, token insulation

Castle Street end, insulation removed and cleaning underway

Insulation removed for cleaning, donated boards to make safe walkway

Water running down the wall from leaking roof

The silvery area is a past repair the the wattle and daub ceiling — The silvery area is a past repair to the wattle and daub ceiling

Church roof visible through the end windows

A similar doorway construction can be seen in the parish office corridor below

Old Front Entrance

The rotten facade of the old front entrance was removed, new timbers used to re-build and modern plastic fascia and soffit to finish.
Old unsafe pyro cable was professionally removed and replaced with new LED down lighters and PIR switches.
New UPVC windows installed to replace original rotten wooden frames.

Most of the rot was on the left hand side

Roof support timbers were okay but the original rafters had extensive dry rot

A glimpse of 1960's 'pyro' electric cable still in place. Now professionally upgraded.

Porch House Windows

The windows on the end of the building as we approach the church door from the car park were in a sorry state. One had been replaced and was okay but the other two had to go. Once we started the extent of the rot was evident, the upper frame was held in with foam!

Looks much the same but no more rotten wood

Both frames replaced and awaiting repair to surround

Sorrowful Mysteries

Luminous Mysteries

Joyful Mysteries

Glorious Mysteries

Rosary Symbols

The link below is an interview with the family of the designer of these unusual and inspiring symbols. The original website “Distant Shores Apparel” from which we first saw these designs is no longer reachable. At the time we sought and were kindly given permission to use them by the designer / co-designers son Pilar Liebl Lopez.

A page relating the history of the family is here Distant Shores Catholic Apparel