More images of St Bartholomew’s,
Arborfield. I’m actually back in Dubai as I write this. Slowly coming round
from jetlag and general exhaustion. It’s always interesting to make that sudden
transition between different climates and cultures.
In my last post I suggested that the chimney served a
fireplace in the Vestry, but checking more carefully it could be from a boiler
in the basement accessed by external steps. There is no evidence of pipework
and radiators, but that could have been removed long ago. There are overhead
radiant heaters now at the junction of wall and ceiling.
Mostly carpeted now, but the original floor tiling is
still visible in the chancel. Typical geometric patterns and colours. We used
to call these quarry tiles and they were commonly found in the kitchens of old
terraced housing, laid directly on a bed of coarse sand or blast-furnace slag.
I like to find areas where the construction is
revealed. Timber lathe providing kek for lime plaster. Like the…