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beccaelizabethI dreamed a really lovely church last night. I dreamed it so detailed it took me half an hour after I woke up for it to occur to me it might not exist in the waking world. But now I can't recall ever having seen the place.
It was made of flint, but the stuff to stick it together was a weathered grey white with a hint of blue, not the slightly brown sort. And not that horrible squared off stuff, proper round flints with lots of goop to hold it up. The overall impression was more of a sky grey with dark shine in it. You do get grey-blue-white flints, I googled for images, Norfolk ones come up looking the way they should in my head and ones from other places don't as much.
Everything was rounded. I want to call it art deco but I couldn't find quite the right images when I poked search engines. A bit like this but convex, or these with not quite so many windows. There are a lot of round tower churches in Norfolk, so it was quite like them, but they tend to have arched windows, and this had very plain rectangular ones. It was a very new church, for values of new that could easily be eighty years old.
The bell tower was a seperate building, and there was a lot more up there than just a bell. The windows around the big spiral stairs inside made going up it a grand adventure, and there were rooms inside, guest suites, and on the ground floor an accessible bathroom. The bell wasn't very impressive. Someone had tried to get clever with it, it was made of long rectangles and more like a set of gongs, and they sounded thin and a bit out of tune. Serious thought had been given to replacing them with very big speakers, but that seemed like cheating somehow. So mostly they just never used the bells.
The main entrance to the building was wide, but only in a big enough for two people kind of way, not in that THIS IS A DOOOOOOOR way some churches get into. It was tall but only for tall humans, not tall humans carrying banners and candles on sticks and stuff. It was made for people, not BIG IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. It was the same sort of color palette as the rest of the building, but glass, so shiny and grey blue when it reflects the sky but clear when you get close enough. The door end of the building had only small rectangle windows, and quite a few of them, but not big long rows. They were arranged to imply at least three storeys inside, more floors of guests and offices and useful places. I never went in there.
The church had its own parking lot (light grey) and a bit of a sweep of lawn off behind the bell tower. The church wasn't aligned with the car park, so it zigged off like / from when you turned in from the road. Long view of the side, many windows, some of them very tall but not around the door. The bell tower was offset to the left of the church door. Off to the right, much more central when you turn in from the road, was a very tall memorial pillar. From the ground it looked as tall as the bell tower but from the tower it did not. It was much skinnier, you couldn't fit people inside it, but you could have stood a person on top. It wasn't for that though. It was a faded dark green tinted metal. And it had a lot of writing on it. Really a lot. And not BIG MEMORIAL SIZE to read from far away, more like 36 point. The pillar looked like it was made by wrapping rectangle sheets around, so there was a page edge up and down it pointing at the church. And every page was covered in some writing.
I don't know what it said. I don't think it was verses. I think it was names. But it wasn't a war memorial. Some other sort.
Inside the church there was a vestibule with doors and staircases going off it, leading to useful rooms, and then there was a big glass door again, and then there was the hall. It was very bright, very white, very English sky cold. There was a lot of art deco abstract stained glass. None of it had people in it, just shapes that were maybe flowers and maybe just wiggly lines and things. But for stained glass it was very unassuming, you never got the impression it was the focal point, it was just kind of there.
From the outside it was different. Both ends of the church were up against a road, though it wasn't quite on the corner, there were shops or something past it. So you had to drive past the window end and then go around a Y sort of corner to get to the car park. Lit up from that angle, at night or reflecting sunlight, it did awesome things with colors and shiny rainbows. It was a window to invite you in, not to be the whole point once you were inside.
It was very non denominational, to the point there weren't any crosses. It wasn't necessarily Christian. It could be for lots of things. But it had its own bell tower, and stained glass, and green with yew trees around it to mark it off from the world, and it felt very much like a church.
I think the big window came to a pointed arch and had a little towerlet above it with a clock. I'm not sure, we were driving past.
... in the dream, where it's probably a made up place anyway, but it felt really real in a background sort of 'of course' way.
In the dream it was all about a wedding being cancelled because the place wasn't as accessible as it promised, it had said it could be and then not done the things that would make it so, there were steps and no ramps, none of the guests could get there. Is a sad dream. I shall improve it and then everyone can get in.
In the dream also was Arthur from Inception. That bit was not very church like. That had more to do with the guest bedrooms.
It wasn't him dreaming though. Not enough gold.
It was made of flint, but the stuff to stick it together was a weathered grey white with a hint of blue, not the slightly brown sort. And not that horrible squared off stuff, proper round flints with lots of goop to hold it up. The overall impression was more of a sky grey with dark shine in it. You do get grey-blue-white flints, I googled for images, Norfolk ones come up looking the way they should in my head and ones from other places don't as much.
Everything was rounded. I want to call it art deco but I couldn't find quite the right images when I poked search engines. A bit like this but convex, or these with not quite so many windows. There are a lot of round tower churches in Norfolk, so it was quite like them, but they tend to have arched windows, and this had very plain rectangular ones. It was a very new church, for values of new that could easily be eighty years old.
The bell tower was a seperate building, and there was a lot more up there than just a bell. The windows around the big spiral stairs inside made going up it a grand adventure, and there were rooms inside, guest suites, and on the ground floor an accessible bathroom. The bell wasn't very impressive. Someone had tried to get clever with it, it was made of long rectangles and more like a set of gongs, and they sounded thin and a bit out of tune. Serious thought had been given to replacing them with very big speakers, but that seemed like cheating somehow. So mostly they just never used the bells.
The main entrance to the building was wide, but only in a big enough for two people kind of way, not in that THIS IS A DOOOOOOOR way some churches get into. It was tall but only for tall humans, not tall humans carrying banners and candles on sticks and stuff. It was made for people, not BIG IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. It was the same sort of color palette as the rest of the building, but glass, so shiny and grey blue when it reflects the sky but clear when you get close enough. The door end of the building had only small rectangle windows, and quite a few of them, but not big long rows. They were arranged to imply at least three storeys inside, more floors of guests and offices and useful places. I never went in there.
The church had its own parking lot (light grey) and a bit of a sweep of lawn off behind the bell tower. The church wasn't aligned with the car park, so it zigged off like / from when you turned in from the road. Long view of the side, many windows, some of them very tall but not around the door. The bell tower was offset to the left of the church door. Off to the right, much more central when you turn in from the road, was a very tall memorial pillar. From the ground it looked as tall as the bell tower but from the tower it did not. It was much skinnier, you couldn't fit people inside it, but you could have stood a person on top. It wasn't for that though. It was a faded dark green tinted metal. And it had a lot of writing on it. Really a lot. And not BIG MEMORIAL SIZE to read from far away, more like 36 point. The pillar looked like it was made by wrapping rectangle sheets around, so there was a page edge up and down it pointing at the church. And every page was covered in some writing.
I don't know what it said. I don't think it was verses. I think it was names. But it wasn't a war memorial. Some other sort.
Inside the church there was a vestibule with doors and staircases going off it, leading to useful rooms, and then there was a big glass door again, and then there was the hall. It was very bright, very white, very English sky cold. There was a lot of art deco abstract stained glass. None of it had people in it, just shapes that were maybe flowers and maybe just wiggly lines and things. But for stained glass it was very unassuming, you never got the impression it was the focal point, it was just kind of there.
From the outside it was different. Both ends of the church were up against a road, though it wasn't quite on the corner, there were shops or something past it. So you had to drive past the window end and then go around a Y sort of corner to get to the car park. Lit up from that angle, at night or reflecting sunlight, it did awesome things with colors and shiny rainbows. It was a window to invite you in, not to be the whole point once you were inside.
It was very non denominational, to the point there weren't any crosses. It wasn't necessarily Christian. It could be for lots of things. But it had its own bell tower, and stained glass, and green with yew trees around it to mark it off from the world, and it felt very much like a church.
I think the big window came to a pointed arch and had a little towerlet above it with a clock. I'm not sure, we were driving past.
... in the dream, where it's probably a made up place anyway, but it felt really real in a background sort of 'of course' way.
In the dream it was all about a wedding being cancelled because the place wasn't as accessible as it promised, it had said it could be and then not done the things that would make it so, there were steps and no ramps, none of the guests could get there. Is a sad dream. I shall improve it and then everyone can get in.
In the dream also was Arthur from Inception. That bit was not very church like. That had more to do with the guest bedrooms.
It wasn't him dreaming though. Not enough gold.