St. Lukes Chruch, Abercarn, South Wales - February 2012
About The Church
There are two churches for St. Luke in Abercarn and I believe the second is now also closed, however I maybe wrong as I didn't have time to check.
The much more impressive of the two churches closed in 1980 after there were problems with the roof. The original roof was replaced in 1958 with concrete.
I am unable to find much information about this church on the internet so I am sorry about the lack of information!
About my Explore
I had seen this place online whilst searching for another location not too far away. I then decided to have a drive past it and check it out and my god I was not sorry!
Sure the place is now a empty, dark and spooky shell but you can see the proud standing tower from a distance - I knew that I had to get inside and have a look.
I was aware that there was trouble with youths on the church ground and I have read that another explorer found evidence of drugs. Knowing this, my usual kit come out to play with me!
Access to the ground is not that hard to be honest and there is a clear way in if you wanted to visit the place. Thankfully I brought along my head torch today as it was very dark in some places - especially the very narrow stair way to the tower / roof.
I spent about an hour having a look around this place and despite the fact it is an empty shell now, there is alot to look at whilst your here.
The Photographs
The Tower Views
Not bad, a group of school kids and teachers saw me taking this and screamed hello!
Thanks for looking !
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