House-hunters with a taste for all things ghoulish have a rare chance to make their home in a Gothic church, which has its very own graveyard in the garden. The Grade II listed building, on the market for £450,000, has kept the original stained glass windows, elaborate octagonal church tower and even the ornate altar – now in the kitchen. In the garden there is the occassional gravestone, although prospective buyers are assured visiting mourners are rare. Inside the Lincolnshire property there are three bedrooms tucked under arching beams, a spiral staircase and original flooring.
Home Sweet Home
The untouched exterior of the church. (SWNS)
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Private Property
Home-hunters after their own Gothic residence will be impressed by the Old Church House. (SWNS)
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Under The Arch
The stones of the imposing lychgate were laid more than a century and a half ago. (SWNS)
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Watchful Eyes
Carved angels and stained glass figures overlook the kitchen. (SWNS)
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Bath And Beams
There are even original features in the house’s bathrooms. (SWNS)
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Below The Beams
One bedroom has impressive oak beams and a colourful stained glass window. (SWNS)
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What’s Cooking?
The original tessellated tile floor remains in the kitchen. (SWNS)
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Make An Entrance
Chandeliers and stone carvings decorate the hall. (SWNS)
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Living Area
The large living room has beams and exposed brickwork. (SWNS)
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Stained Glass
There are original stained glass windows throughout the Gothic building. (SWNS)
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Period Features
Every room has plenty of impressive features. (SWNS)
*pedant* If the gate was only built a century and a half ago, this is nouveau or imitation Gothic, from the Victorians, not actual Gothic (from the High Mediaevals). The Victorians were a bit mad for the Gothic style, but left out all kinds of less pleasant details like the horribly malformed gargoyles, et cetera. Also they very carefully shaded the stained glass, being unaware that the similar shading in real Gothic cathedrals was because nobody’d cleaned the damn things for centuries.
Dude, was I responsible for you reading check please?? HA MY KILL COUNT INDOCTRINATION QUOTA er, whatever you call it, IS UP TO THREE, JOIN USSSSSSS
And yes, yes, I am KAPUT, do you hear me? The emotional whiplash, it is a THING. Owlet is a cruel, cruel mistress.
So, tell me. Do you love Bitty with an irrational, fervent love? Do you feel as protective as a fierce mother polar bear of Jack? Do you want to smush Ransom and Holster’s faces together yelling “NOW KISS”?? Do share.
DUDE I SPENT THE WEEKEND READING THE ENTIRE BLOG ARCHIVE. I HAVE READ THE MOST RECENT THREE COMICS LIKE A THOUSAND TIMES. AUGH THE FEELS WHO AUTHORIZED ALL THESE FEELINGS. (I will probably forget to be careful and get all spoilery (and i don’t think my followers have read it), so now: a readmore!
…NEVERMIND YES WE WILL GO IMMEDIATELY TO SPOILERS. BITTY DEALS WITH HIS ABORTED-DECLARATION-OF-LOVE FEELINGS BY SETTING UP CHOWDER’S ROOM FOR HIM I CANNOT. it took me like forty-five reads to notice that but i have been thinking about it ever since. (ALSO HAVE YOU READ THE POST-COMIC TEXTS JEDUSAUR WROTE. BECAUSE I DIED. my favorite part is the timing lags before Jack responds to the first and last ones because you can see him just staring at his phone for the entire 20 minutes before sighing, squeezing his eyes shut, and replying really fast before he loses his nerve AUGH)
i went to Oberlin in the early aughts so i feel like i’ve known Bitty for YEARS. (tiny adorable gayboy making all the pies! he will suppress his pining with PIES! he will deal with ALL THE THINGS with ALL THE PIES!)
and yes, i totally get polar-bear-y about Jack. i nearly punched Kent through my laptop screen. 😛 GO TO HELL YOU EMOTIONALLY MANIPULATIVE DICKWAD.
i… haven’t thought a lot about whether i ship Ransom & Holster? I do love their entire relationship though, they are the greatest. (though now that i think of it, maybe Holster gets jealous of the ghosts getting to grab Ransom’s ass all the time. XD)
trying to decide if i ship Lardo and Shitty, tbh. i can’t decide if i want them to make passionate love or just be that pair of best friends whose respective significant others have to go through SO MUCH CRAP from outsiders about how jealous they must be that their partner spends so much time with the other one. (i… feel like that sentence didn’t make sense. :P) because obvs neither of them would be in a relationship with someone who was gonna freak out about how they were best friends with someone of the opposite sex, and it’s all totally chill and honestly the SOs are probably grateful not to have to listen to all the hockey yelling every once in a while, but the flipside is they keep having to tell acquaintances that NO, they actually are NOT worried that Shitty and Lardo are going to run off together, yes even though they finish each other’s sentences half the time and do crossword puzzles using each other’s butts for pillows and cut each other’s hair.
i mean, it’s either that or i want them to stay up until 4am bedazzling artwork together for the rest of their lives.
and now basically i’m just sitting here trying to figure out if i’m gonna have to wait another month for an update AUGH.
Kimchi and Justice 