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 scaffolding All furniture had to make way for internal scaffolding .... |
Materials pile in The church is fuller than it has ever been |
Some material goes up the ladder Much more difficult than the outside staircase |
The internal scaffold platform The angel gallery |
The boards above the rafters All were taken apart: covering, secondary .... |
The rafters exposed The problems begin to appear |
Rotten rafters Rotten, crumbling and hollowed out |
Concrete support rot Concrete supported for maybe a hundred years |
Rafters disintegrating from the centre Rotten at both ends and crumbling in the middle |
Rot of rafters clearly Real disintegration |
Beginning to see the biggest hollowing out Beginning to see the biggest jungle canoe |
