Gallery - Refurbishment of the wooden roof structure (now thankfully completed)

External Scaffolding goes up

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The pews are cleared for internal scaffolding

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All furniture had to make way for internal scaffolding ....
Materials pile in

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The church is fuller than it has ever been
Some material goes up the ladder

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Much more difficult than the outside staircase
The internal scaffold platform

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The angel gallery
The boards above the rafters

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All were taken apart: covering, secondary ....
The rafters exposed

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The problems begin to appear
Rotten rafters

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Rotten, crumbling and hollowed out
Concrete support rot

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Concrete supported for maybe a hundred years
Rafters disintegrating from the centre

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Rotten at both ends and crumbling in the middle
Rot of rafters clearly

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Real disintegration
Beginning to see the biggest hollowing out

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Beginning to see the biggest jungle canoe