For a mere £10,000 a week — and if you need it translated into dollars, you can’t afford it — you, too, can play ping pong under the watchful eye of Chief Joseph! (Note: might not be Chief Joseph.) You can baptize your pets, houseguests, or UPS guy!
And when it all gets to be too much, you can retreat to your own sci-fi/fantasy (yet somehow tasteful) bedroom.
I just can’t decide if this is awesome or not. It should be awesome, but it doesn’t quite hold together for me. Is it the building-within-a-building that doesn’t seem quite right? Is it the Foosball? I’m not sure.
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Loveliest comment, by Texchanchan: First Henry VIII, then Cromwell, now this.
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This looks like something out of Resident Evil …
House comes with free giant bat and plague of undead scientists.
Its fabulous. Period.
I agree. It’s amazing.
The church architecture clashes horribly with the kitchen. It looks like it ought to be two separate listings. They could have done some sort of medieval thing, and it would have at least blended properly.
That would be my only (albeit minor) complaint. It does seem too modern looking. Carved wood, a wood burning brick pie oven, etc. would have served better.
I’m with Sara, it doesn’t quite hold together for me. It’s a little too cold, and sterile. I think that’s because it’s been turned into a very high end rental.
There’s just something off-putting about that. This amazing old church, turned into a dwelling but it’s not anyone’s home. It’s someones development dream.
I guess all I’m saying is that there’s something very mercenary in that.
Agreed. A definate clash between the time-aged beauty of the old church, and the cold & sterile remodel.
The whole place seems made to order for an exhibitionist: case in point, that big white bed facing the glass wall! No real privacy in this place at all. Pretty, but I’ll pass.
There are roll blinds over the windows, but I would have thought gothic style curtains or stained glass windows would have been more in style.
I had a nightmare about dusting once. I’m pretty sure this listing is a projection of that dream.
Hands down it’s awesome for sure!
Arches…vaulted ceilings…flying buttresses..Oh my! Makes my Gothic heart go pitter patter.
First Henry VIII, then Cromwell, now this.
Nice neighborhood, but if I were to spend $15000+ a week on rent, I’m not sure that’s where I’d be. And it is sterile. I wonder if someone did the conversion, and then work moved them, so they are trying to rent. But not many people will pay $750,000 a year in rent. Just saying.
What’s funny is that most of it is sterile, but there are these pictures propped on the kitchen exhaust fan!
this is looks……… OK i’m english used to work around there….. not old…
this was a purpose built Mormon church (you can tell by the baptism of the dead pool dead givaway (groan) nothing against them but errrm compared to the event’s described I.E. Henry and Cromwell this is a whipper snapper of a church and has seen neither NOW ST Maggies in my home town… http://www.stmargaretskingslynn.org.uk/ that survived both plus floods and hurricanes.
(usually to be an OLD church in England it has to be at least twelfth century) this si not due to snobbery but bearing in mind the one linked too is on my way to work so when youre seeing something that old frequently you become a bit jaded to what exactly counts as old
You just burst my snobbery bubble. Thanks for the background info.
I don’t think this was a Mormon church. They don’t have any statuary, and they most certainly don’t have stained glass windows of very ornately garbed bishops. It may be newer construction, but it was’t by Mormons.
I have been in a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (“Mormons”). They most certainly DO have statuary as well as stained-glass representations of saints, some of whom were bishops of the early Christian church. (Yes, Mormons are Christian.)
I do not know if this particular church was built by the Mormons – but I’m willing to take high horse’s word for it, seeing as he/she goes by it every day.
Since I actually happen to be Mormon, I’m gonna pop in and say that this is not an LDS church. We don’t have baptismal fonts in our churches, we have those in our stake centers and our temples, and this is most definitely neither of those. (And the baptismal fonts look nothing like that, FYI. We also don’t do statues of Catholic saints.) Only our temples would be anywhere near this elaborate, and we don’t do them in red brick.
Yes these are Catholic saints – grew up in Cath. school, and recognize them.
The Mormon church down the street from our house is done in a lovely stone theme (as I’ve seen many are). Very bright and cheery. This looks more catholic I think.
We have a baptismal font in our (non) stake center meetinghouse . . . but it sure doesn’t look like this! I can’t imagine anything built by the LDS church (even the oldest temples, which I have been inside) looking remotely like this. That being said, wouldn’t it be cool if it was an LDS church? I’d go to church there (if I lived in that ward) (and they got rid of the weird statue over the “baptistery”).
Well, it does depend on the area if there’s a font in other places, but this totally isn’t one of ours. Be awesome if it was.
Basic difference between Europeans and USAians: Europs think 300 miles is a long distance, USAians think 300 years is a long time.
High Horse: The church in this listing was built in the early 1900s (begun 1901, completed 1909) and was part of the Diocese of Southwark. It was built in anticipation of expansion in the area that never came. New, yes, but not Mormon.
Spotty: High Horse said s/he goes by the church she linked to every day, not the church in the listing. To clean up and rephrase her post a bit:
“St. Maggie’s in my home town (link) has survived both Henry VIII and Cromwell, plus floods and hurricanes. It is on my way to work. When you frequently see something as old as St. Maggie’s, you become a bit jaded as to what exactly counts as old. By comparison to St. Maggie’s and other churches in England, where it’s not considered ‘old’ unless it’s at least 12th century, All Saints is a young whippersnapper of a church.”
The weeping angel seems like it would be a downer when friends came over for a drinking party, but the Naughty Catholic Schoolgirl potential is amazing.
Those weeping angels are reminding me of Dr Who. I’d be constantly looking over my shoulder to see if they were sneaking up on me… ARGGGHHHHhhhh….
You’d have to hire people just to stand there and watch it. Or maybe set up a camera. Or hang a really creepy staring picture right across from it so that it’s fooled into thinking your black velvet Elvis is watching its every move.
If I lived there I would have to start up my own adult version of Hogwarts’ school.
It’s a beautiful place, but live there? Not me, even if I did have that kind of money to spend on rent. Too much genuflecting; I’d never get the trash to the curb.
I now have to clean off my computer screen JMixx…jokes only a Catholic could love…
Do the weeping angels mean that I would get a visit from Doctor Who?
The weeping angel is clearly there to catch the eye of Doctor Who fans still mourning the loss of David Tennant. “DON’T BLINK!”
Pretty freakin’ awesome.
The sterile architecture and the contrast with the Gothic arches and the modern clean lines is deliberate. If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. Personally, the modern isn’t quite my taste, but I get what they’re trying to do.
I picture this as some kind of hideout. Seven bedrooms? And all those common spaces? This needs to be a lair of some kind, or headquarters for some kind of secret organization.
I’m torn. That curved bedroom with the vaulted ceiling is 100% OMG let’s cash in the retirement plan and live there (for a week), but the plywood facade on the exterior of the kitchen just DOES NOT GO. I see what they were trying to do but it doesn’t work for me: looks like the kind of temporary hoardings they put up at a building site. And the owner’s choice of prints and artworks is somewhat… well, it reminds me of a regretsy.com “view it in a room”.
But- there’s a pool! what kind of freakin’ amazing is that?
I think maybe it looks so sterile because it’s owned by some kind of aging rock star and they’ve paid an industrial cleaner to come in and get rid of the used beer cans and bongs.
overall, though, I’m going with awesome.
The combination of modern and gothic gives me the creeps. I’d worry that someone who looked like James Mason would invite me to a game of pool and then when I lost, kill me and shove my body into one of those antiseptic kitchen cabinet.
My first thought when I saw this was that I wouldn’t be surprised if the Cullens lived there. (or Dracula. Really, insert any vampire you can think of. The Cullens just came to mind, embarrassingly enough) For some reason, a sterile converted church seems like a good vampire hideout to me.
That’s exactly what I thought when I saw this (but was too afraid to admit it because I didn’t want everyone thinking I was a drooling Twihard). I think it’s because of all the bedrooms and the modern-meets-medieval decor.
I so want t his house.
It looks incredibly awesome, but a house infested by Weeping Angels? No thanks. I’d have to install security cams and triple-backup power systems just to keep them quantum-locked. (At least, I hope a security cam counts. It’d suck to never be able to close my eyes or look away.)
i love it!! i so want this house.
Parts of it I really love, parts of it not so much. Half of it is medieval or makes me feel like I have to be on my good side at all times. Half of it is too modern. It’s a weird mix. I think this would be better if they converted it into a spa or something. The pool is amazing!
I think you’re all missing the “start your own church/make lots of money angle.”
Step 1: Buy the house/church
Step 2: Create a cult following
Step 3. Work from home and never pay taxes!
Brilliant idea!
Anyone want to join Our Lady of Perpetual Ping-Pong? Anyone? Ferris?
I offered to Mount St. Michel from the monks in exchange for my old laptop, but there were no takers.
I saw this on Foxton’s ages ago. I love it! I was so happy when I found it here.
If you want to see mad real estate, go to Foxton’s http://www.foxtons.co.uk and select the most expensive search as well as the cheapest one. I love it.
You can choose houseboats! http://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?bedrooms_from=0&prop_type=boats&property_id=693164&search_form=keyword&search_type=SS&submit_type=search
Absolutely awsome. Nice that lovelylisting not only finds the beat down places.
If a group of people rented it so there was a couple in each bedroom, each person’s rent wouldn’t actually be that bad, for Richmond. You wouldn’t all be able to have dinner at the same time unless that table has leaves though…
What on earth are you supposed to use the nave…. pardon me “Great Hall” for? Ballroom dancing? A Roller Rink? Or really large matches of that game where you slide over the parquet in your socks?
Not a good conversion.
And why are there never any bookcases shown in listings?
I find this residence (can’t quite call it a house, can you?) exquisitely beautiful. I really enjoy the combination of the ancient style against the sleek modern lines; they frame each other elegantly – something that really surprised me and could have been a disaster done by a lesser designer.
I would live here in a heartbeat, no questions asked, no regrets if I could afford it.
And I would totally use the apse bedroom as my room (that’s the one facing the curved wall of windows facing east – sunrise!) and the tower room as an art room/office!
I would love to live in a place like this!
Looks a lot like Boy George’s place in London-also a chuch, as I recall with a grand tower. But not even this is as creepy in retrospect.
The only thing I can say about this listing: That is the BEST Lara Croft bedroom I’ve ever seen. Seriously. Play a Lara Croft game where you can go to Croft Manor. THAT IS HER BEDROOM!
You realize the fooseball table is just there to help me convince my husband.
Where would I be finding this in it’s original listing? I want to purchase it. I would have to re-do the kitchen, and the games room though.
Click on the “found by” line at the end of the post. Have a good housewarming!
Wow, that’s a Crazy Horse–I mean, crazy house!