do you fancy buying a church

[Margaret Pilkington]

Maybe they would hoover and dust while I was asleep. No......I definitely wouldn't want a church with a graveyard attached like the one at Rising Bridge.(I know it is daft really.......I am usually so logical)......but I don't want graves in my backyard...I want somewhere to hang the washing.

[blazey]

I would rather see a church pulled down than see it used for something other than its original purpose. It is against everything I've ever been taught about respecting the church and why should I think otherwise?

[Margaret Pilkington]

And left like the rubbish dump that once used to be Sacred Heart I suppose.

[panther]

Blazey youve become very religious all of a sudden havent ya?
since when did you ever go to church?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Some Churches are beautiful and Majestic......and the older ones definitely come into this category.......it would seem shameful to demolish such buildings.......but I wouldn't(personally) want to live in a converted church.....but then I don't like to see them used for antique retail outlets either. No, I don't know the answer.

[blazey]

Originally Posted by panther

Blazey youve become very religious all of a sudden havent ya?
since when did you ever go to church?

Since when has it been any of your business how often I go to church? I take part in the christian events here every week, but I don't see what that really has to do with my opinion which is based on tradition, not religion.

Jesus didn't say lets not turn the church into a pub, it's just common sense that it is absolute sacrilegious to do such a thing. It's a place of worship not a place full of vile drunken behaviour.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Wasn't it Jesus who threw the money lenders out of the temple?

[panther]

Originally Posted by blazey

Since when has it been any of your business how often I go to church? I take part in the christian events here every week, but I don't see what that really has to do with my opinion which is based on tradition, not religion.

Jesus didn't say lets not turn the church into a pub, it's just common sense that it is absolute sacrilegious to do such a thing. It's a place of worship not a place full of vile drunken behaviour.

ya a moody cow!!

****** off if ya cant be nice!!

[moon]

Would feel weird to live in a church, quiet...... too quiet!

[blazey]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Wasn't it Jesus who threw the money lenders out of the temple?

They weren't planning on turning the temple into a pub.

[lancsdave]

A church is already a house so no conversion needed

[garinda]

“Church isn’t where you meet. Church isn’t a building. Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.”
- Bridget Wilard.

[Royboy39]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

A church is already a house so no conversion needed

In the words of our Great Leader from North of the border, 'If it's not sustainable....bin it' ....'We did that with with many Post Offices.'
'If the Christian Church can't afford to control their financies or maintain their premises...close them down.'
'Let's put our finance into growth industries...Like special training schools for the poor unfortunate ethnic minorities......Lets send millions of pounds in aid to countries who grow 'Fat Cats by the hundreds'.

Our money should be spent on our problems of which there are many.

[shillelagh]

The one at rising bridge has a small patio at the back of it, thats shut off from the graveyard. By the way my mum & dad are in there and doubt if they'd haunt you - if they havent come and got me well doubt theyd haunt the owner of the church!!!!

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by blazey

How would you feel if your place of worship had to be turned into a pub willow? I get the feeling you would be upset about it.

It wouldn't bother me one bit. But then again I agree with what Rindy said. The church isn't the building it's the group of people. I have attended church in a purpose built building in Rawtenstall which I wasn't overthrilled with because it's set on high ground and in winter the approach can be extremely slippery and almost impossible to walk up to.

Then the geographic boundaries were changed and without moving house we became part of Blackburn Ward instead of Rawtenstall and started attending Blackburn but there wasn't a church building at the time and we met in rented rooms over the top of the Skipton Building Society.

Then a chapel was built and we moved into that. But then the congregation grew too big for the chapel so those of us who lived in the Accrington area were split off and we met in the Town Hall, then Moorhead High School, then the Masonic Lodge in Ossy (where we had the women's Relief Society in the bar area - we made some little curtains to cover the actual bar during our lessons but all the optics and bottles were still behind there), then shared the chapel with the Blackburn lot with them going in the morning and us going in the afternoon one year and the vice versa the next year.

Then lots of people moved out of the area and Blackburn Ward became quite small again so we were joined back together again and all of us met in the chapel in the mornings.

Then the chapel was refurbished and for a while we met at Darwen Vale High School.

So, you see to me the building is unimportant.

The building in Water Street Chorley which used to be the Chorley chapel no longer belongs to the church and I haven't a clue what it is now. Likewise the one in Nelson. It doesn't matter.

As far as Cannon Street Baptist chapel is concerned from an architectural point of view I would rather see the building saved and converted to something useful than demolished and lost forever.

I wouldn't mind living in a converted chapel in principal if it was done sympathetically and if there was enough private outside space. I think the one at Stonefold is a bit cramped and Cannon Street Baptist is too centrally located.