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The
Pupils are probably familiar with examples of church buildings which have
been converted for secular use. They could write an effective poem based
on the idea of
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"Once
the building was filled with song / old ladies wearing outlandish
hats / young babies bawling / confetti / fat men snoring during a
long sermon / people meeting their friends ….etc" |
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"Now
the building is a supermarket where cash registers jingle and signs
saying 'Buy-One-Get-One-Free' replace the ten commandments / an art
gallery full of people sipping champagne at exhibition openings and
worshipping art / a set of luxury theme flats with the graveyard as
a garden…" |
Or
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"Once
the building was dark and miserable, attended/visited by few if any
people: Just neglected, you couldn't believe people celebrated anything
there…" |
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"Now
the building is alive and buzzing with light - lively like it was
when it was first built/ different groups from the community meet
and are happy there/ Sometimes, because of the shapes, lofty spaces
and setting, people still make links with what it used to stand for." |
These poems could form the basis for a general discussion about what a 'consecrated'
building is, and about what appropriate uses might be found for redundant
churches.
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