Where Am I? No. 158 - Something different…a church

[Mike in Cumbria]

No - I can't see any similarity at all apart from them both being churches.

[Spidermonkey]

The chancel and nave are parallel to one another. The tower is in mid build, stage one being completed, a temporary wooden bellcote has been installed on the tower. There is an aisle on the far side of the knave. The tower may now have 2, 3 or 4 stages. The best identifier would be the gable end windows on the nave.

Regards

Malky, and the dog's name is Rover, as he is roving the streets. 

Is the photo post WW2?  So could we be looking at needing to repair tower after bomb damage? 

[ScouseBoy]

No.  I think the photo  dates back  to about 1880 when the church was under construction.

Note the Gas street light  as an indication of date.

[groom]

Can I ask, was it usual to leave a tower half built? The trees in the grounds are quite established, plus the wall and gate don't look new. Why not finish the church in one go?

[ScouseBoy]

Maybe they ran out of money,  is one possibility.

Maybe the builders went bankrupt?

Maybe the benefactor hit a period of financial difficulties?

[Mike in Cumbria]

Can I ask, was it usual to leave a tower half built? The trees in the grounds are quite established, plus the wall and gate don't look new. Why not finish the church in one go?

I was wondering that too. That church isn't being built, for the reasons you give,  but the tower may be being added or extended.

[arthurk]

Another possibility is that as they got to a certain height they discovered that the foundations weren't going to take the weight of any taller tower, or spire, or whatever had originally been planned.

[Flattybasher9]

"The tower may now have 2, 3 or 4 stages."

The towers were usually built in stages. This one has buttresses on it. They would let the first stage lime mortar/cement harden for a few months prior to starting the second stage due to the weight factor. Note the section ring around the top of stage one.

(Diverging slightly, the Boulder dam concrete is estimated to take 100 years to fully set.)

Regards

Malky

[Little Nell]

Back to (dis)similarities - I'm with Jen, liz, groom, Mike and arthuruk - I don't any similarities.   

The windows at St Peter Woolton do not seem to have the pale stone border that can be seen in Cazza's photo.

And they would also seem to have removed the lovely wooden gate (seems to be a lytch gate there now), and rebuilt the roof so that the row of dormer windows is no longer there (check out GoogleEarth or similar).

Too many changes to be the same church - sorry 

Nell