Gallery - Wooden Roof Renovation
Pictures from the original renovation work can be seen here. Many years of rot had set in and a large percentage of the rafters needed to be replaced.
External Scaffolding goes up |
The pews are cleared for internal scaffoldingAll furniture had to make way for internal scaffolding .... |
Materials pile inThe church is fuller than it has ever been |
Some material goes up the ladderMuch more difficult than the outside staircase |
The internal scaffold platformThe angel gallery |
The boards above the raftersAll were taken apart: covering, secondary .... |
The rafters exposedThe problems begin to appear |
Rotten raftersRotten, crumbling and hollowed out |
Concrete support rotConcrete supported for maybe a hundred years |
Rafters disintegrating from the centreRotten at both ends and crumbling in the middle |
Rot of rafters clearlyReal disintegration |
Beginning to see the biggest hollowing outBeginning to see the biggest jungle canoe |













