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Receiving Vault

The slab for the casket and machinery that powered it rusted away in the basement of the chapel, making it look like an archaic dungeon. The system appeared to be a hydraulic lift; memories of Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein were immediately conjured up in my mind.

The uniqueness of the lift combined with the stark white light above was quite a sight to behold. The racks surrounding the table were used for storing caskets.
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OH MY GOD!!!! WALLPAPER PLEASE!!!!!!
Joe
Sat 04-26-2008
NEXT!
nutsy fagin
Sat 04-26-2008
Wallpaper please Motts. This is a fantastic shot there is just so much "feel" to it. I love this shot.
Canada
Sat 04-26-2008
i second joe and canada, this would make an amazing wallpaper
Krow Sorrow
Sat 04-26-2008
Wow, now that's real creepy! I also vote for wallpaper too Motts!
C-Note
Sat 04-26-2008
This actually looks like an autopsy theater.
SkedAddled
Sat 04-26-2008
Sked beat me to it. But yes Motts, Wallpaper!
Aussie Paul
Sat 04-26-2008
i can haz wallppr?
Tucuxi (formerly Chippy)
Sun 04-27-2008
How do you find and dwell in these places that are not only abandoned by living people but dead as well?
Ophidian
Sun 04-27-2008
Potential wallpaper right there, Motts.
Hallucinator
Sun 04-27-2008
i will have to disagree on the wallpaper issue; it doesn't strike me like the other wallpaper shots do, but that's not meant to take away from the beauty of the composition. nice work.
KBWS
Sun 04-27-2008
Totally freakin awesome shot. Wallpaperr for sure!
Patrick
Sun 04-27-2008
One word.



WALLPAPER!!
Jenn [Sunshine]
Sun 04-27-2008
Motts this is my favourite shot so far, WOW!
Jude
Sun 04-27-2008
now that is CREEPY! haha.. Me too Motts! Wallpaper! :D
nuel
Mon 04-28-2008
yesssssss.....wallpaper.......all I could say was 'wow'.....
Tony C.
Tue 04-29-2008
Incredible shot, amazing composition. Gives "behind the scene" a new meaning.......
Amazed
Tue 04-29-2008
Looks like a torture chamber.
Amanda F
Wed 04-30-2008
yeah it does have a Frankenstein feel to it
Stacy
Wed 04-30-2008
First thing I thought was "hmm now I could see this in a Saw movie"

Wallpaper for sure.
Dan
Thu 05-01-2008
my question has been answered ;-)
rtotten
Thu 05-01-2008
I have been to this cemetery [name edited per site policy] and abandoned chapel. It is beautiful, but more so in winter as you stated.
Missy
Fri 05-02-2008
sad display of the way man uses something til it serves his purpose no more
joy 1
Fri 05-02-2008
I absolutely love it, it just brings it all together. It's such and ongoing drama. Nobody could make it any better. Rising from the dead to be displayed to the choir of the living. Man, it just blows me away. It's a play in motion.
Johnny Mac
Thu 05-08-2008
Again, Hellraiser comes to mind.. I like your black and whites a lot.. Leaves a lot to the imagination..
AO
Sat 05-10-2008
Frightening and sobering... This is great in black and white!
Mel
Sun 05-11-2008
oh i see now.
Nicole
Sun 05-11-2008
What artist could ask for access to a more inspiring setting?
A Little Less Lucky
Thu 05-15-2008
Halloween wallpaper. Great light and shadow.
Nef
Mon 05-19-2008
Welcome to the lab, and stay on the slab , cause the next thing is the Time Warp ..
Tara
Thu 06-05-2008
Hammer needs one of these at his church so he can "rise" up and it becomes "Hammer Time"!
G.Lee
Thu 06-26-2008
*LOL*

--er, I mean, ouch...
Jenn [Sunshine]
Thu 06-26-2008
So many lives stored in those racks, so many words left unspoken.
This would be rather un-nerving.
Zara
Sun 07-06-2008
Whenever I come upon a cemetery for the first time there are several things I look for :
one of those things is the receiving vault.
most 19th century cems. had a separate stone bldg.
In some cases the vault is built into a hillside
or,right under the lawn with a hatch door.
This arrangement is a new one to me, as is the funeral chaple.
Guitorman
Tue 07-29-2008
Sans the cellar lift, it reminds me of many European Chapels, long and narrow with cellars, or rather catacombs, that held the dead,
Prairie Lady
Thu 08-14-2008
All it needs is some wiring, a T-storm, some glass containers and ....

"It's alive, it's alive, it's alive!!!"

Now that wopuld be freaky.
Prairie Lady
Thu 08-14-2008
IT'S ALIVEEE!
Hybrid Moments
Wed 10-01-2008
Wow crazy what they thought of back in those days .Couldn't be to old .Such odd equipment
Darrin
Mon 10-27-2008
Were the dead transported there from the Mortuary or home and stored in the racks in their caskets until the funeral hour, or were they brought there and casketed in the caskets stored in the racks? If casketed there, wouldn't they be emabalmed and preped there? It would be unusual to embalm and prep a body and then transport it to the chapel to be casketed wouldn't it? I never knew such things existed. Nice shot. Thanks, Motts..
Charlie
Sun 11-02-2008
This photograph must have been used as an operating room.
Peyton II
Mon 11-17-2008
I've seen something similar on TV once I believe, I just can't remember where..
Apple
Sat 02-21-2009
truly a breathtaking shot. almost romantic is a morib way... relatives saying their last farewells as you're lowered into your final resting place...
dark princess
Mon 06-22-2009
excuse me, i meant to type morbid, not morib lol
dark princess
Mon 06-22-2009
Looks like the electric bed from house on haunted hill!!! It's a funky old house, AIN'T IT?!
luna 666
Thu 09-03-2009

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