Photo-a-Day  (Friday, 7th July, 2023)

Love it!

Love it!
Beautiful colours, thank you Dennis

I have never seen the inside of this church it’s beautiful. Full of atmosphere of the ages.
The carved wooden ceiling and stained glass windows set in the old stone walls are far superior to modern churches. It looks well cared for thanks to the volunteer cleaners and handymen who are always there behind the scenes in most churches.

We really enjoy visiting churches, ancient & modern. St Wilfrid's looks well loved used. Some of the churches we find have been de-consecrated & are open for visitors....one near Norwich is unusual in the fact groups of abt 10 people could 'glamp' in it !
Interesting photos Dennis.

Excellent, Dennis.
When I was very much into these things, I always thought it odd that Standish was (just) in the Diocese of Blackburn while the rest of Wigan was in Liverpool.
In RC circles there was another anomaly where most of Wigan was in the Archdiocese of Liverpool whereas Our Lady, Haigh, was in the Salford Diocese.
The effects of lines on a map.

PS...Just read the history of St Wilfrids on Wikipedia....what a history it has & such unusual exterior. It would be on our list to visit if we were nearer !

The Church where I was confirmed.

Hopefully the funds can be raised to sort the spire. The developers should be helping to fund it

Spire at St Wilfrid’s church, Standish could just snap off without vital repairs so a fundraising appeal has been launched to help pay for the urgent restoration of a spire at an historic church.
Architects say the 130ft steeple at St Wilfrid’s CE Church in Standish needs vital repairs.
The church is the only Grade I-listed building in the borough of Wigan.
Parishioners have launched an audacious attempt to raise £400,000 for the work with the help of the local community.
The rector Rev Andy Holliday, said he was told that without repairs “eventually the spire would just snap off.

A difficult picture to take in dimmish light Dennis but you've succeeded splendidly . No photo however can capture the special smell that seems to percolate in this church . Osmogenesia I think they call it .

I remember a Roundhead helmet hanging from a hook on the right of the top picture , which is now in the Harris museum .

Why don't they just do away with the steeple and make it a flat roof, after all we don't have countryside steeplechase races any more.

That's really lovely. You can almost smell the smell that "poet" mentions. What a beautiful building. I have only been in once, many years ago, and the Book of Remembrance was open at a page showing the name of the man I used to work for at the chemists....it seemed such a strange co-incidence.

The post at 4am is not from me!

Been past there loads of times but never been inside, looks very nice.
Cheers Dennis.

Osmogenesia my, such a long winded word for something being so easily reasoned my dear Poet, truth is it's those lay people and vicar too in having had the vindaloo on nights before and suffering badly from the fiery winds, good thing, dust doesn't settle anywhere, bad thing, oak beams in tower being affected by rising pentane and sulphides.

The ‘Odour of Sanctity’ Poet another meaning for ‘Osmogenesia’. I have heard it mentioned many times in relation to the incorrupt bodies of various holy saints after death . The scent of roses mainly and lilies etc.

Who do you reach for ,
when the ears do not hear ?
What is a voice ? In a chamber closed near ?
How can a bird sing its own claim ?
When this how it must be….and the rest is to blame ?

Beautiful church this Dennis, thank you for photo.