Only in England can you find a gorgeous Georgian church like this that has
been renovated into a home. Converting a church into a modern home was
a long process for Sally Onions and her partner Ian Bottomley. Few people
have the imagination to convert a ruined church into a home.
It's really quite unique.
Type of house: Converted five-bedroom Georgian church
Location: Kyloe, Northumberland
Purchase price: £92,000
Money spent: £300,000
From the entrance hallway, you can glean a view of the wonder to come.
I am posotive that it is very difficult to show the actual height of the
ceiling in these photos. The scale must just be amazing. Putting sky
lights into the roof is genius and probably a must to brighten up the
place.
The wood floors really give a warme feel in such an expansive place.
A nice and open kitchen with rustic looking wood finishes for the cabinets.
I love how they put lights up in the eaves of the ceiling -
it gives off a lovely glowing quality.
What a way to showcase a bed - in this perfect nook.
White washing the stone really brighten this room up.
For the grand finale, what a fabulous place for a bathroom - complete
with a floor to ceiling stained glass window. Absolutely stunning. I
hope you enjoyed this tour as much as I did. What do you think?
Would you live in a converted church as your home? Would it be
cool or would it be too weird for you?
Photos from House Beautiful UK
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71 comments:
It is breathtaking but I'm thinking what about cleaning and heat ?
Oh my... beautiful, but a bit creepy don't you think..?
wow) very beautiful) i'd love to live in a place like this one)
This is just astounding! The stained glass in the bath is equisite!
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I am not religious but this is beautiful. It would also make a great B&B.
You have the BEST finds, wow this house is stunning! I am not sure how I'd feel about being in a church... but definitely has an awesome architecture and they really took advantage of the space and made it feel like a home!
ps: the 1st image from the floral post it was in Japan I believe it was a trade show, but not sure... and the library in Portugal is my favorite!!
super cool, but I do think it'd be a little creepy. Especially with the cemetery in the yard! Also, the names of the people that live there sound so cute it's almost fictional!
This is cool! Look at Desire to Inspire blog and their today's post. They did church re-model as well and it is great to see them both!
I love big, high-ceilinged & vast spaces so this part I really liked. I think they did an awesome job on the interiors, though some parts seem monastic. Could you live with a home having this exterior? Don't know. Very interesting. I'm sending this post on to my son & DIL who will think it's brilliant. xx's
OMG! Amazing..who would have thought..such a beautiful church and we expect to see all the normal church decor,when we go there. However, turned into a home..that's really something else. Those stain glass are out of this world!
A community spanning generations poured themselves into that place. They gave money, they helped build and maintain the grounds. They shared memories joyful and sorrowful--weddings, baptisms, and funerals. They lie buried in the yard, their resting stones add to the ambience of what is now "quaint", a "pretty" space for some couple who wants a unique look. I hope my memory--my dreams, my contributions, my loves, my desires--are never reduced to someone's parlor room. I hope that neither your nor my family's gravestones are ever relegated as a cup holders for an afternoon cocktail party.
Those forlorn, walls silently bear the tragedy against the backdrop of the kitschy retrofit . . .
A fair comment anonymous. I'm certainly not religious but agree a respect for history and community should be considered against the needs of any developer.
However, so many of these places are being sold off - if the church won't rennovate them and the government can't afford to, is this a better alternative to ruin?
I am always sad to see a church converted into anything but it is a lovely home. The computer center where I went to college was an old chapel.
Personally I would not like to sleep next to so many dead people.
can anyone say... "meet the parents"??
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i'm surprised nobody has noticed it yet!
Amazing concept! If given the chance, I probably wouldn't mind living there
Actually not all that unique - I have a small collection of converted churches I've been getting around to posting. I tend to agree with anon., but what is the Cof E supposed to do with all its buildings now so few people attend.
I don't like to think of their heating bill, in Northumberland (brrr)
I like how the dining room table seats 12.
I also (like other ones here) have double feelings about this house/church... I love the sensation of space and mysticism, but I never would have a cemetery in my backyard! I don't like the idea of having a cemetery one 1 mile away of my house!
Beautiful but not for me. What about closets? I think the master "bedroom" is on the altar? A little out there if you ask me. :)
A couple of notes... first, the altars in traditional churches tend to be at the intersection of the halls, not in one of the nooks. It looks like the bedroom wing is in the nook where the choir or the church organ would go. This particular church isn't in the cruciform layout larger churches have, but the altar placement would nonetheless be at the head of the main hall rather than in an alcove... it's the focal point.
Secondly, this church would not have been sold or converted if it had been in active use. Nobody was kicked out. If the church was, in fact, abandoned, this is the best thing. The graves are being tended again, the building maintained, and at some point in the future it might get reacquired and reconsecrated. If there is tragedy in a disused church being converted into a home, the tragedy is in the disuse, NOT the conversion.
Third, having people living in churches is nothing new. Clergy often live on church grounds, or in the building itself. The only difference is who is living there now.
Creepy? A little. I wouldn't live there myself, but I don't see any inherent "wrongness" to it.
It's absolutely gorgeous!!! I love the idea of it, but I think it would be too weird. . .
The cemetery being close by may be a bit weird. However, death is a part of life. Anyway, I think they did an AMAZING job of renovating the place and creating a home. It's truly beautiful. I love the hardwood floors, and the amazing light coming through the stained-glass windows. Funny, this church is probably older than my country.
A church is certainly a great architectural space and the owners have really transformed it to its full potential. Having been brought up in a catholic boarding school, I would feel eery living in a church and so close to a grave yard...so you know...i believe in ghosts..
lololol Why not to live in a church, a place with virtually no negative energy. People up there do not like it because is a church and they really forget that the mosque in islam is the centre of life, in Cairo old mosques got schools, hospital and orphanage. People have prayer and make their siesta in the mosque all over the word. Churches like all other holly places are considered pure. Desecralization is when a monument belonging to a long forgotten religion or a actual one is dissembled and destroyed being sold piece by piece or demolished, like temples in Egypt or in S America. God does not forbid in any religion to have a personal life in the Temple or a Church or a Mosque. God does forbid to ruin a holly place. Oh everyone think about having intercourse in bed. In any religion God command you to have children and they are not coming by KLM nor TGV. Stealing, lying, robbery are sins and this acts can negatively affect your community, making love with your wife in a holly place is not a sin.
And to all of you that really know nothing about furniture there is an oriental DIVAN that looks for amateurs like a bed. Originally DIVAN is the royal council later the royal chamber. As furniture DIVAN is a sofa, in grand palaces, like the sultan one, the divan furniture is really gigantic, being twice as big as the occidental bed. It can be used for resting place for siesta, a nap or a confidential tete-a-tete in oriental style, with candies, tea and fruits. A divan can accommodate or should accommodate at list 3 persons or more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divan
and here
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and here photos with a large bed ( divan) some hundred years old.
http://2009europe.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/img_1864.jpg
if you look in that link above the sleeping-room is located in the attic. lolololl
http://freshome.com/2010/05/07/ruined-georgian-church-turned-into-home/
lololoo Divan is always located near the diner area, like in all the palaces in orient, you eat and rest. when secretive discussions take place or 2 of the guests from the table need a little tete a tete they can go in the altar on the divan. In that church the sacred area is destined to living room library, dining area and divan area, the curtains are for temporary privacy from a larger group of people, there is nothing to be exasperated you people. Visit Istanbul, Cairo, Damascus or Alepo, visit Orient. Learn more about furniture and the function of the open spaces. open your mind, ask questions be patient.
I love all the different comments and discussion over this topic. It's been very interesting and eye opening. Thank you all so much for taking the time to contribute comments that are obviously very well thought out.
Thank you,
Karen O.
wow, I mean wow! There is nothing that old here in the US, but this is simply amazing
The first Christian churches met in people's homes. Now, some church buildings are being converted back into homes. How remarkably cyclical.
I love visible stone and wood structural elements in a home's interior, but I couldn't live in a converted church. Nevertheless, this conversion (no pun intended!) appears to have been done respectfully.
Simply amazing how this house was setup. i really love how the living room and bed room are setup very creative!
Awesome idea! I wish I could do the same. Heaven's temples must be this way. Congratulations! It's very beautiful, too.
I'm sure they will go to Hell for doing that
Wonderful! Absolutely one of a kind.
Congratulations! The creativity is amazing.
the woodwork, lighting, space and of course the ceilings are breathtaking. once you get past the fact that its a church you can see it has everything a person would want in a nice home. you've even got garden spots,which churches usually have. this is nothing short of perfect!!!
Maybe a little weird - but SOOOOOOO cool!
They did such a great job with it! Can you imagine laying in that bed at night with the twinkling lights and those candles??
Thanks for sharing!
What if this was St. Peter's Basilica? Would everyone still be okay with it being converted into someone's private residence? It's a beautiful building without a doubt, but it seems a little tacky to me. I understand the point that it's better than having it torn down, but it's also sad to me that old, established churches are empty. Why do churches build some ugly structure with theatre seating when they could instead inhabit a beautiful old building like this? It's a mystery to me.
All that being said, though it does seem a little tacky (probably because I am religious and all of those architectural elements mean a great deal to me in the context of a church), the new residents are clearly doing a wonderful job of maintaining the place and preserving the beauty.
wow stunning homes
While having dinner, the guests can watch the hosts procreating on bed. A charming idea.
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I think I see this kind of renovation. They also transform an old church into a new house. But I think this is more beautiful than the first one I saw.
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Its interior is very similar with a barn house, particularly the roofing. It really fascinates me to see big and better changes in architecture industries and companies. My favorite houses are located somewhere in Miami where most of them are simple yet very relaxing.
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The first Christian churches found in people's homes. Now, some of the church building is converted back to the house. How to significant cyclical.
I love visible stone and wood structure elements in the home, but I can't live in a reconstruction of the church. However, the conversion (no pun intended!) Seem to have finished respectful.
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