Merry Christmas

[Tom King]

To All!!

We went to a service in a nice little timber framed Episcopal Church, built in 1869, last night.   They only have one service a year, on Christmas Eve.  The church is not heated, so gets pretty cold, and most of the light was by candles.  It's only 5 miles from our house. It's kept up by volunteers.  It was a nice service, the singing joyful, and sounded good in the little building with a full house.

PIcture was taken soon after they started letting people in.  Total size is about 24 x 40, and fills completely up.  The whole catedral ceiling has those nice timber frame trusses.  Almost all the wood is Heart Pine-walls, ceiling, floor, and all.  Window casing is Poplar.  I'm not sure if the Poplar is original, or not.  Pews are original, and have a foot rest bar along the back, slightly above the floor,  which I've never seen before.

 

 

[pkinneb]

That's amazing!

Merry Christmas Tom! Hope you and your family have a great day together.

[wtnhighlander]

Beautiful building! 

Not sure if thus is an Episcopal tradition, but the first this backwoods Baptist boy visited a Catholic cathedral, I saw what I thought were footrests, but later found out were  kneeling rails. Those were made like a 2x4 attached to the legs of the pew in front, about 6" from the floor, and covered with shag carpet. That was the late 1970s, during a vacation to Texas. We saw several old Spanish missions, but I believe those kneeling rails were in the Alamo.

[Tom King]

These were just strips of wood, 1x2-1/2 nailed onto the backs of the bulkheads (ends, dividers, or whatever the "legs" of pews are called), about 3" off the floor.  It would have been more comfortable to kneel on the floor, than the edge of a 1x, but maybe they had something else laid over them back then.