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Headless Mary

Headless Mary

The headless mary statue has been kicked around a lot... this and choir sheet music are some items found from what must've been a chapel area.
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The lead singer/bassist of the Goth-a-billy band The Young Werewolves still has the head she knocked off over a decade ago. I believe it's a candle-holder these days. It's made from poured concrete with re-bar. It's heavy as Hell and requires a few people to lift it upright. Every time we do it though, some idiot knocks it over again.
Radical Ed
Sat 01-08-2005
I know i have been criticizing (i know my spelling is horrible sometimes) almost every picture but i find it incredibly amazing how some people have nothing else better to do with there time to where the have to vandalize every abandoned building they come in contact with
Angel
Fri 02-25-2005
Mary's pissed!
Joe
Mon 05-30-2005
Well...she's certainly lost her head!
Radical Ed
Tue 05-31-2005
I would love to have that statue !
Veronika
Fri 07-29-2005
MARY MUST BE PRETTY PISSED RIGHT ABOUT NOW... PLUS THATS SO MESSED UP!!!
ashley
Wed 08-03-2005
I think you people should grow up.
Kate
Fri 09-23-2005
but we are TOYS R US kids!
~Me
Fri 09-23-2005
It's better they kick around in byberry than in some of the other more pristine places motts has taken photos in.
Ack
Sat 11-12-2005
A decapitaded Mary, something I'd like to own in my collection or at least take a picture with it.
Nocturno
Sat 01-21-2006
Nice picture.
Jen xx
Sun 01-22-2006
I know I'd be pissed if some drunken idiot chopped my head off. Then, I'd come back to haunt them and show them what it feels like *grins*
straitjacket
Sun 02-05-2006
were did mary statue come from in front of st anslem i remember when a mary statue head got knocked off n all the cross's in the school got turn up side down a girl i know said she seen the head n it was crying n that statue sure looks like 1 i remember
take$
Sat 06-24-2006
actually this statue was still standing this past weekend... came across in sunday night
lozer
Tue 06-27-2006
A group of people should go down there and put it in front of the building for the demo crew to see.
NegativeCreep
Thu 06-29-2006
this reminds me of a funny ass story my english teacher told us... when he was a HS senior he was on an awning thing vandalizing some chick's window because she turned down his prom date offer and her mom pulled in the driveway but his friend had ran away with the ladder so he had no choice but to jump so he did and took a mary statue right to the tailbone it was so great he didn't break the statue but it broke the hell out of his bone, he was really really fat then too so its actually really funny to think about.

hey, I thought I could just lighten the cynical mood here...
J.R.
Sun 10-08-2006
Hey Mott.

You should stand this statue up, wash it off and take some black and white photographs of it.

You take some great black and white photo's and some black and white photographs of this statue would look so cool !

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.
Joseph
Tue 03-13-2007
GROW UP JUST LIKE KATE SAID.....POOR MARY
CIARRA
Tue 04-17-2007
I've looked at a lot of Mott's galleries & hardly any of the hospitals have a special place of worship.

It seems that all British mental institutions had them, either built into the main building or in the grounds.
Richard Davies
Mon 04-23-2007
Many of the older psychiatric hospitals had a separate chapel building on campus (pre 1920's), while the newer or renovates places often held services inside an unassuming room (or so they looked post-abandonment).
Motts
Mon 04-23-2007
Danvers State Asylum had a chapel, but it was demolished along with the rest of the site earlier this year.
Janice
Mon 04-23-2007
Oh....
Piano_Angel
Mon 04-30-2007
I MEAN NO OFFENSE TO ANYONE, but this hospital must have been filled withn atheists.
(Martin Mull is atheist, and he's one of my favorite actors.)
John
Sat 06-23-2007
Too bad someone would deface a religious icon.
Kolfritz
Sun 06-24-2007
hahah, i kinda want this statue..
leftovercrackk420
Wed 12-12-2007
I've fallen, and I can't get up!!
loco
Thu 05-21-2009
Headless Mary, good name for a Metal Band.
FullFathomFive
Sat 02-27-2010
The owner of the head showed me a picture of iot. It is indeed a candle holder
DarkElf
Tue 05-25-2010
I hate your picture. what up with the statue
Gill
Mon 10-24-2011

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