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…in 1959.
I’m not sure whether the intended readership of this sign are historians, vandals, or funeral attenders, but I like it. There is nothing worse than not knowing when a door was bricked up.
The church in question is St Mary the Virgin, Little Burstead, which is a couple of miles from where I live.
This photograph was brought to you as part of the DW ‘post something on the blog every day even if it is rubbish’ scheme. I can’t see it working myself, but there you go.
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I think you are on to something, Dave. Perhaps you could start a new blog which chronicles — exclusively — the bricking status of various doors. You could focus especially on doors that have been bricked up. In the case when they have not been bricked up, you might speculate why that is the case.
Not having looked, I’m going to guess that http://www.hasthisdooreverbeenbrickedup.com is available.
Perhaps a ‘My Favourite Door’ theme? There is a church one passes on the W7 bus that did, some years ago, have a ‘Goods Entrance’ sign on a door. Predictably and sufficiently amusingly, this had been altered at some point to say ‘Gods Entrance.’
Scott – this is a very good idea. I can, for instance, almost immediately think of several doors that have not been bricked up. The amount of potential material would be considerable. The only problem is that I start too many blogs. Ideally I need to try and close one blog per day rather than starting any more.
Sara – that is indeed a sufficiently amusing sign. The only aspect that seems a little peculiar is that a church should have a Goods Entrance. What goods would a church need to have delivered (apart from the obvious – weekly boxes of wafers, etc)?
Perhaps there was a door on the other side – not visible from the W7 – which said “bads entrance” and had the confessionals just inside….
Is it possible that the door is still bricked up but you can’t see it? e.g. on the other side.
Perhaps something from “Bloody Stupid Johnson is hiding back there?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_of_the_Discworld#Bloody_Stupid_Johnson
I don’t think it will work Dave, the whole point in a door is to ba able to walk through it, once it’s bricked… Oh hang on that’s not the bit you wern’t sure would work?
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between there are doors. (Ray Manzarek, The Doors)
Addendum: And some of them are bricked up. With a sign on.
Love this post and picture, Dave! Someone needs to keep track of the brickedness of doors.
And still laughing at Scott’s comment!
Thanks!
No doubt this contributed to the decline in churchgoing
Thank you for these comments.
Benita makes a good point. Does bricking up the church doors lead to a decline in churchgoing? I suppose it depends whether people are inside or outside when the bricking-up is done. It could be an effective outreach strategy to get newcomers in – people like a challenge.
Is it too obvious to say, or is the door clearly not bricked up!?
Good grief, I feel the pressure now I see you’ve time limited comments. I only have 4 more days to think of something amusing to write here ….. I’m off to open a tin of pilchards.
Mouse – It must be bricked up, otherwise there would surely be a notice informing passers-by of the date of the unbricking.
As for time-limited comments. Yes, I tend to brick-up all comment threads after 6 days or so. But there may or may not be a switch that turns that off, I forget.
That’s not a bricked up church door … this is a bricked up church door!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/36928008@N08/4457556335/
But it’s not bricked up, it’s flinted up.
I assumed that the door was bricked up inside. So a newcomer might open the church door and be faced with a brick wall … a bit like when some non-churched people attend church for the first time?
looks as though there were some recent repairs. I wonder where they got very thin carpenters from to do this.
On the Goods entrance theme there may also be a bads entrance for those who have not repented? _ sorry
No, this is a bricked up church door! http://www.flickr.com/photos/79684719@N02/?saved=1
What a strange sign! From my experience it should read “This door was bricked up in 1959 in memory of Mrs Muriel Smith whose family kindly donated the bricks.”
Perhaps it is really the bricked up door which has since been unbricked. Like the Occasional Friday morning home group with meets on Thursday Lunchtime to which I belong.
if it is a C of E church, think how many faculties it would need to do this
Envisioning a new campaign of stopping people entering our churches, I followed this link. I hoped to see an end to the ‘we need to recruit more quota payers, so have to crowbar unsuspecting members of the public into our church buildings’. If we brick up ALL our church doors, then people who know Jesus, might go somewhere else to talk about him… just a thought.
