Arriving at the railway bridge on Victoria Road in Saltaire, we get our first glimpse of the church tower, behind the old Dining Hall where meals used to be provided for the workforce at Salts Mill. The Dining Hall is now part of Shipley College. If we shift our view a little to the right (below), down Victoria Road, we can see Salts Mill on the right and the trees of Shipley Glen in front of us, leading up to Hope Hill on the horizon.
A few steps down the road from the Dining Hall building, we arrive in front of Saltaire's grade 1 listed Victorian church, with its distinctive round tower and cupola:
From the same spot as the photo above, looking in the opposite direction, we can see a matching stone post at the entrance to Salts Mill. This area retains the original stone setts that used to surface most of the streets in the village when it was built in the 1850s. (I'm rather alarmed to see that the metal railing has come loose from the post. I hope that gets repaired before it becomes impossible to deal with. These small features are such a distinctive part of the village's design.)
Almost like being there! I can imagine walking through the streets.
ReplyDeleteI remember walking down there and first seeing the church!
ReplyDeleteThe heavy stone bollard is leaning away from the railing because the bridge is pushing it. It would be simplest and cheapest for a metalworker to manufacture a matching iron extension piece to the upper rail and weld it in.
ReplyDeleteSuch marvelous architecture.
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