House buying at an auction

[vetran]

I'm confused from the photos, it looks like it's still a church AND a house?

read the spec in the details, its partially converted.

You can see stud walls in the arches of the side aisles. One assumes the rooms are in those, the Nave and chancel aren't converted yet, one assumes they will become a huge open plan show off room?

seriously jealous. Will be a nightmare to dust though.

[d000hg]

I'm jealous too, and that price is amazing.

FAQ, is the plan to live there or make money?

[TheFaQQer]

I'm jealous too, and that price is amazing.

FAQ, is the plan to live there or make money?

Family home. We've looked at various places for a while, but this was too good to miss - ready to move into but with lots of potential. Have promised the children that although they will have to share a bedroom to start with, they will get a room with en-suite each once it's completed.

All the structural work is complete, everything from here is internal work - still need to build a few walls, the nave floor, the staircases up into the tower though.

[TheFaQQer]

Will be a nightmare to dust though.

Yep.

We still haven't worked out how to change the lightbulbs yet, either. Bloody big long ladders, it seems.

[vetran]

Yep.

We still haven't worked out how to change the lightbulbs yet, either. Bloody big long ladders, it seems.

LED bulbs/strips or you can get lights on ropes that winch down.

stage lighting from the floor?

of course as you have the arches with stud walls I would be tempted to put the light fittings in the walls pointing into the nave and have rear access. You could back light some recovered stained glass in the walls?

[d000hg]

What about a trained monkey?

[mudskipper]

It'll be amazing. You should do a blog.


When son #1 was about 4, he went to church with his granny.

"Granny, does God live in your church?"

"Well yes," says granny.

"Oh. I thought so - I saw his cooker out the back."

[OwlHoot]

Have promised the children that although they will have to share a bedroom to start with, they will get a room with en-suite each once it's completed. ...

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No seriously, mega kudos. The tower alone looks big enough for three or four floors of rooms with a spiral metal staircase. Outstanding

[mudskipper]

What's on the stained glass windows? And how old are they?

[TheFaQQer]

What's on the stained glass windows? And how old are they?

Not sure. One of them is dedicated to a former vicar who was murdered in the vicarage - in 1868 they voted to have a new window dedicated to him, so I guess that it's not too much after that. His is one of the graves which comes with the property: