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GOT a large piece of property with room for a
woodworking shop? Why not make a shop which looks like a miniature
church?
For the past three or four months, Ted Staunton has
been building such a structure in his back yard in Surrey.
The church’s rough cedar vertical siding boards
were made from telephone pole offcuts, obtained from fellow Johnston
Heights member John Goudsward.
These pieces were then trimmed down and notched in
overlapping fashion. The cedar shakes used for the roof were hand-cut from
a 60-foot tree which had blown down in Staunton’s yard several years
earlier.
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The north end of the 12-foot by six-foot
building is almost entirely glass, providing a view of winding pathways
into a steep ravine. The interior features a choir loft (suitable for very
short singers).
“I wanted a very vertically-oriented
building to fit in with all the tall trees around,” says Staunton.
“And I’d always wanted to build a ‘folly’ of some
sort.
“I would be happy if people would like to
use the church as a backdrop for their post-wedding pictures.
It’s a bit small for an actual wedding ceremony, since you can only
get about six people in there – maybe eight, at a squeeze.
Nevertheless, he notes, he is assured that at
least one couple will be making use of the facility.
“My son Ian plans to get married to his
fiancée Sharalee Bowker in our back yard in August. ‘Build it
and they will come,’ I guess.”
January 2008
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