184 Comments for Transfiguration of Our Lord

Awesome stone work. I'll guess the back entrance to the dungeon sub levels. Stretch racks, iron maidens. "Corrective measures" for young boys caught masturbating and girls that dared to take their panties off. Included spectator galleries for the clergy I'm sure. (Yes, I'm going to hell now! :oD)

Organist needs to know when to start banging out some Alice Cooper. In this case, professional salvage operations would have paid money to strip this place. Profit has to be there to get these things to a good home so they can live on. Some well-wishers may find that offensive, but it's the only option left.

Awesome lights no doubt. I'm sure somebody grabbed those. I count 17 in one image alone. Yeah, turns in the pipes were all assembled before placing them. Had to be, there's no other way. :o)

I've seen that on my grilled cheese sandwich!

Looks like two very nice slabs of marble there. Amazing some dummy would smash those those and toss them.

Used for? I'll guess funeral viewings and memorial services? Strange there's a "church junior" under the big one. Perhaps for when two events happened at the same time. Get married upstairs, and die downstairs?

Man who fart in church sit in own pew.

Did they have the tin man and the scarecrow too?

From the cracks around some of that stuff, those cast plaster elements in the arches just might come off intact. Did anyone even try?

There are elements to save, but be aware that some things cannot. Plasterwork applied in place is near impossible to remove. Tiles and other elements applied can be so well attached, getting them off without breaking them can be near impossible.

In the city I grew up in, much incredible architecture has been demolished and tossed away. The lack of regard for the craftspeople that built these buildings is an atrocity. They won't be back, neither will more of such creations, nor the old growth forests cut to construct them. Commercial salvage operations will come in and strip these places so at least the parts of them can live on, and be with people who value them. It's almost like angry people insist the old building be destroyed out of some kind of vengeful attitude. Like, "Finally! make that horrible old stuff go away NOW!"

Ah, so that's what the mirror is for, thanks!

I am so glad you have a picture of these. I had noticed them in another picture and was hoping for an enlargement. Thanks for all the wonderful pictures you take that preserve such beautiful things that are destroyed.

These pipes would have been played by a large organ with several keyboards and multiple stops. I'm guessing the organ and maybe even the choir was in this loft space. The sound would have been incredible.

It is a smaller pipe organ. The really big ones have 4 or 5 keyboards. The rear view mirrors were standard equipment so the organist could see the minister or choir director for cues.