cathedral

Background: Locally referred to as "Paddy's Wigwam", Liverpool's Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral began its life in May 1967 after 4 and a bit years of construction, with the first foundations laid in October 1962. The estimated cost of construction was initially £3M, however, this later grew to...

Salisbury Cathedral Seeing as the scaffolding FINALLY came down last week, and the building is now scaffolding-free, it seemed fitting to revisit my photos from it and share some. It's a real mix of photos on this thread, as they were taken over a collection of visits using different cameras...

Hey everyone, First report here, We were a photograph groups based in London and we wanted to get some sick shots of St Pauls, After looking at google maps and google earth for a while we saw a roof top in the street in front of st paul's that were doable, We went up inside the hotel and went...

The History The original Abbey Mills Pumping Station, in Stratford, East London, is a sewage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver. It was built between 1865 and 1868, housing eight beam engines by Rothwell & Co. of Bolton. Two...

Manchester Cathedral (Big Meet – Manchester 2018) After being at the pub for a while and seeing a few others disappear to find a local roof, myself and @b3n decided we would follow suit. After a lot of talk about trying the cathedral is seemed to be the best place to start. Photos Like I said...

Our Lady of Reims Cathedral History Obviously there’s a lot of history associated with cathedrals and this one is no exception. I had no idea it was quite as old as it is when I decided to have a closer look. I’ll keep the history fairly brief as there’s plenty more info online should one...

Second time I've Been up here and second time I've missed the pier being lit up, council must be saving electric or something :( Anyway explored with sparky as a plan B, a nice way to chill out for a hour.

we finally decided to give the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral ago and managed to make it to the top, would just like to point out, its not just a set of ladders & did require team effort to get to the top. Didn't photograph any of the climb at the start because we were more concerned about not...

A cool night of climbing in Sheff with @Raz and a none member Butters Taken from the roof of Park Hill Flats Bit of History; The Cathedral Church of St Marie is the Roman Catholic cathedral in Sheffield, England. It lies in a slightly hidden location, just off the main shopping street in the...

Canterbury Cathedral seems to have had scaffolding round it for as long as I can remember. I lived in Canterbury for a while about 6 years ago, and it even had scaffolding round it then. If anything, there's more now than ever and several different routes to choose to the roof, so with it being...

houses of god rooftops seem to be the flavour of the day so here's a couple from my hometown of worcester back in the summer only got up one side as they were only working the SW tower, my old lady was actually up in the tower helping archive some of the library ready for internal...

houses of god rooftops seem to be the flavour of the day so heres a couple from my myself and perjurys hometown of worcester back in the summer only got up one side as they were only working the SW tower, my old lady was actually up in the tower helping archive some of the library...

The Victoria Arches were a series of arches built in the embankment of the River Irwell in Manchester. They served as business premises, landing stages for Steam packet riverboats, and also as World War II air-raid shelters. They were accessed from wooden staircases which descended from Victoria...

First I'd like to say a big thank you to @Bigjobs @Ojay and @Paradox for making the happen you were very helpful and thanks for use of equipment. We're lots of other members there but can't remember all names now.. But you know who you are.. Was great evening from start to finish with the...