St. Augustine, Brookland (Again)

[poliphilo]

Brookland

Here's a shot of the interior. The South aisle looking west. What you're seeing isn't a fish-eye distortion; the pillars really do lean like that. I assume it's because the foundations have shifted in the marshy soil.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a rambling old place. To take this pic I was standing with my back to the side altar looking towards the (hypothetical) congregation.

The main aisle (to the right) still has its enclosed 18th century box pews; you can see one block of them projecting out between the pillars. This is rare; the Victorians thought them divisive and hierarchical and replaced them where they could with rows of benches.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks for the explanation.