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mookster 


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Derelict Chapel Bonanza
< on 5/17/2021 7:16 PM >
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This year I have reconnected with a couple of friends and we seem to have spent an inordinate amount of time in Wales documenting chapels - so far half of the explores I've done this year have been assorted Welsh chapels spread over a few trips. I think I've made the comparison before that finding a derelict chapel in Wales is about as simple as finding a derelict school in Detroit, a lot of the time you'll be heading to somewhere and pass by two, three, four or more other chapels which all require investigating.

I guess that's the thing I like about these chapels, in that every one is different. From the tiny single room rural chapels which would have served at most a private congregation of two or three local farms, to the imposing, beautifully ornate multi-level ones found in larger towns and cities - they are all interesting and all very different.

I've posted a couple of them on here separately however I've got enough now for a thread showcasing many of the others I've shot recently, over two trips to south Wales and a trip to the north of the country, an area I haven't been in for at least four years.

Chapel One - this one had a long-stalled construction project attached to one side of the building. A lot of the time private individuals will purchase redundant chapels with a view to renovating them, however a lot of the time their vision outstrips their finances and such projects grind to a halt leaving the chapel to deteriorate.

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Chapel Two - A permission visit, this lovely building is owned by an adjacent tyre garage, the owner bought it to stop someone else buying it and building houses on the site, but so far he doesn't really know what to do with it!

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Chapel Three - Currently being used to store various building materials, some sort of work began to install plumbing at the front of the chapel for a conversion but it stalled very soon after. This was the last chapel I shot on this particular day and by the time we arrived here I was absolutely shattered, so only took a handful of photos before leaving.

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Chapel Four - A tiny rural chapel with a still used cemetery, situated in a simply stunning part of the country.

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Chapel Five - An extremely unusual, and very hard to shoot, chapel. It looks as if it was only closed fairly recently, we were initially unsure if it was actually disused but the decayed state of the vestry and general dust and cobwebs over everything confirmed our suspicions. Full of dark wood and with a spectacular ornate window at the front, it did make shooting inside quite difficult!

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Chapel Six - A small, primitive Methodist chapel, which may still be in occasional use. If it isn't, it's only been disused for just over a year as the writing in the donations book showed. So perhaps it's only been closed due to COVID, and will be used again. That being said, the amount of mould on all the books inside wasn't a good sign.

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Chapel Seven - Another permission visit. This one we drove past on the way to our final stop, and simply chanced it not knowing if it was disused or not. After establishing from a neighbour that it was indeed still in use, one of the caretakers walked up and asked if we'd like to see inside. To which, of course, we said yes, and I'm very glad we did. This chapel is another highly unusual one, as it's been extended in an L-shape to join it to the old school hall next to it. It also has no fewer than five beautiful ceiling roses and was a lovely pale yellow inside. According to the caretakers, they use the smaller old school hall more often as it's much easier to manage, however the occasional bigger service takes place in the main chapel a few times a month.

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Chapel Eight - The final stop on this particular trip, and it was, sadly, a bit of a disappointment. The owners had converted a small part of the old school house/vestry into their own private residence, partially stripped the interior of the chapel and left it full of their own junk. I only shot this one on my phone as it was very blatant and bait, being mere inches away from their house in a room full of their belongings.

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I can confidently predict there will be many more chapels to come this year...

Thanks for looking




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Re: Derelict Chapel Bonanza
< Reply # 1 on 5/18/2021 6:19 AM >
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Sweet. Good stuff.





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Re: Derelict Chapel Bonanza
< Reply # 2 on 5/18/2021 1:03 PM >
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Chapel galore!




mookster 


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Re: Derelict Chapel Bonanza
< Reply # 3 on 5/22/2021 9:40 AM >
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Cheers guys...can never get enough of these places. They're pretty much one of the only sort of locations left in the UK which haven't been descended upon by the masses of idiots as well.




Baldran 


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Re: Derelict Chapel Bonanza
< Reply # 4 on 5/22/2021 2:02 PM >
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These are all so good. I love the endless variety and the little unique details in these sorts of places.




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