Chapel

WOW THATS SUPER COOL! NOOO, THE THEATRE WAS LOCKED, NNNNOOOOOOO! THEATRES ARE ONE OF MY FAV PLACES!

I can't quite make out exactly what those three things are against the back wall. They're kind of shaped like short torchiere lamps, but they almost look like they might be stains on the wall itself. I need to get up the guts to go explore abandoned buildings for myself sometime - I could spend hours investigating a place like this and looking at all the little details of what used to be everyday life. Oh well, until I do, I'll hang out on Motts' site and let him do the dirty work =) Hey, is that ceiling PINK?

GirlJaye...Looks like those marks on the walls were lamps...they must have been removed, and whats left is the shadow where they painted aaround them...Or they're just stenciled decorations...Are those bird nests between the columns, up there?

Shame that the Main Hall was locked down it has some awesome features .... even the old christmas decorations are still there :O)

Another arsonist perhaps! How sad What a beautiful place.

i love the structure, and what are those triangle shaped symbols on the wall?

if you ask me, those things on the wall look like painted on (or "fake", if you will) versions of either those upward-facing light fixtures OR some kind of hang-on-the-wall vases. they might not be painted, but thats how they seem to me. i also find it interedting that, for a chapel, the room is divided in half; not only by the columns, but the celing even angles in.

Well, if it was a chapel, the marks on the wall may have been where small shelves were placed, to support religious statues etc. It's a common silhouette for that type of shelf in churches, anyway.

love the celings in this room, wish I had these in my house. You can see where the alter was at the back of the room.

Interesting architecture. This building really makes use of natural light in it's design.

Kinda reminds me of one of the bldg at NSH- I think the area was an dining room

... se ve a toda madre

Those columns look similar to the ones in the main line stations at Waterloo and Victoria in London. Just on a smaller scale. Interesting they were in a chapel, they feel a bit out of place.

This room has a insect look about it.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

this was the roman catholic chapel, next door to the ballroom (you called it theatre, but in reality it was a ballroom, and also a theatre and even a cinema) this is taken facing where the alter was, the organ would have been behind the photographer.

The vaulted ceilings and the fragile columns are a nice touch to a sorta remarkable building. Not inspirational but impressive. Motts you are always the best of the best.

Lovely vaulted ceiling.

I used to attend this chapel as a child and teenager in the 1970s.

The altar (see later picture) was on the small platform at the far end, surrounded by a wooden communion rail, part of which can still be seen in the picture.

By tradition, patients sat to the left of the columns, staff's families and other members of the public sat on the right. Although the chapel was intended for staff and patients, local villagers in-the-know also attended, to save themselves the two-mile journey to the nearest Catholic church. You can see the bare wood areas of the floor where the pews were, with a wide surfaced aisle down the middle.

The two doors on the right led to the priest's vestry and the confessional.

i cant belive you managed to get into the chapel we can never get in there ever. one of the security guards quit because when he was doing a patrol all of the lights came on and he heard an organ playing from inside