I've been absent from this forum for some time but here are a few recent projects. The first is a Metropolitan Railway K class Tank engine created from a Bachmann N Class.
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Saint Johnstoun's recent projects.
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It's only because the wife spent a good many years in the diocesan office working on faculty applications that I had any clue what 'lucarne' meant.
Now, practical experience: while up a complicated spired tower there was one such, totally opaque due to external avian deposits and internal batshit. Fortunately I had with me hand held lighting, to assist with inspection of the tower clock mechanism which was the subject of interest. Amusement, the exceedingly dusty and batshitty parcel label tied onto the clock casing relating to the most recent service, carried the telephone number 'Leeds 4'. A very good mechanism clearly, still keeping time according to the chap that wound it weekly. Classic in the 'If it ain't broke don't fix it' department.
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No trouble with the business it belonged to, the name was on the label ; and the estimate for the latest date that number would have been active came back as circa 1890, as the demand for telephones in cities with large scale industry and business rapidly required a move to multiple digit numbers. It was a very early number allocation in shor,t and while doubtless convenient to have a single digit number, like all good things it swiftly came to an end...
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Always wondered who go the first & only telephone, & what was the point, but what an amazing bit of sales business; also how long they waited for the first call ................. well it is Sunday morning 
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Use of some Slaters Roofing tiles and left over parts created this.
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My final version of St. Cusps. North Aisle added, water downipes, spire and weather cock.
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I live near Perth, which old name was St. Johnstoun, the principal Parish Church being dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Also one of my favourite locos was A1 60162 Saint Johnstoun. The excercise was to produce an architecturally and ecclesiologically correct version of a village church using what was available commercially and this was the result using several kits and other additions. In the end I finished up with three different churches.Well done. So, it's not Saint Johnstoun church ?
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Designers of churches for Model railways never get beyond the idea of an early Victorian Preachng Box layout!
Never mind model railways; (thus it's deletion in the quote from your post) the earliest definitely unaltered church remains I have been in are to be found in Olympia, Greece, not long past excavated, having been buried under a landslip caused by an earthquake in the 4th century and subsequently further buried by later events.The floor plan is instantly recognisable, and if the walls were built up and a roof popped on it would be a fully serviceable preaching box suitable for any village in Europe.
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A bit more tweaking with parapet added to the south aisle.
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Another variation - central tower!
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I would agree - to me that rendering is the most atmospheric and like an English Country Church.
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A fourth variation arrives - inspired by the Estate Church at Thorpe Constantine (not
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far from Statfold Barn Railway) which was rebuilt in the 1850s.
far from Statfold Barn Railway) which was rebuilt in the 1850s.
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