On friday my group partners and I went to the Christ Church in downtown Victoria, we had a look around the graveyard outside of it as well as the crypt inside the church itself. The graveyard had some very old monuments, some of which were even sinking into the ground. They were very hard to read the etchings had mostly faded away due to time, if we had brought some charcoal and paper we probably could have figured them out.
The church was very large, the ceiling was like 58 or 68 ft high and the almost every single window was stained glass. It all looked very regal and expensive. Aparently it costs around $3000 a day to keep the place running. We got permision to head down into the crypt to have look around and found it to be a very modern type thing. It was small and narrrow and the walls were covered in little rectangular holes. Most of which were already covered over with marble tablets depicting names and dates. In the middle of the room was a little altar where the pastor or whomever did the service spoke before they put the ashes of the deceased into the spaces and then covered them up.
The stained glass windows surrounding the main walls of the church were almost all dedicated to dead people and were donated to the church. They all showed 1 of the 12 apostles of Jesus as the entire picture and it was just writing saying who dedicated it.
No comments:
Post a Comment