Historic and Post-Fire Image Galleries

St Peter’s images from the personal Ropley History collection of Tim Day – many from old postcards.

A subset of the 180 photographs taken by Paul Smith from Billingshurst in August 2012 – these show interior detail.

A subset of the 180 photographs taken by Paul Smith from Billingshurst in August 2012 – these are the best we have of the organ, of which effectively nothing survived the fire.

A subset of the 180 photographs taken by Paul Smith from Billingshurst in August 2012 – these concentrate on monuments an plaques.

A subset of the 180 photographs taken by Paul Smith from Billingshurst in August 2012 – these show some of the windows and stained glass.

A subset of the 180 photographs taken by Paul Smith from Billingshurst in August 2012 – these show the exterior.

Photos taken by Ron Beal in 2002 as part of preparation for the Ropley Village Design Statement

A set of images produced by Ropley Primary School pupils in May 2014 as part of a photography competition.

The 2013 wedding in St Peter’s of Becky and Kyle Bennett, also the christening of Angelica. Thanks to Becky.

Images from Memory Stick and Scanned Photos. Family wedding and some inside of the Bell Tower showing clock mechanism and bell frame etc. Nice ones of harvest festival decorations.

Digital and scanned photos that don’t justify their own gallery

Rodney Skinner took these photos during the fire

Hexacopter drone images of St Peters taken on 29 July 2014 by David Quick of Alton Camera Club (working with the Curtis Museum in Alton).

Photos taken not long after the fire by Rodney Skinner and Ron Beal. All are from outside the security fencing as access was still thought dangerous.

Images of the interior damage taken as the bells were being removed – also late November 2014. It’s obvious there is not much interior left! Thanks to Michael Bailey and Andy Bonner for these excellent images.

Photos of the bells still in situ – taken by Andy Bonner from the surrounding scaffolding.

Photos taken by Andy Bonner in 2014

For a considerable time after the fire, it was considered too dangerous to go anywhere near the bell tower as the damage to the beams was so great and the bells very heavy. These are photos of the bells finally being brought down from the tower, taken by Rodney Skinner and Michael Bailey, Don’t try this at home!
Heat and firefighting water had cracked two bells, the #3 (thought possibly repairable) and the #5 (much worse).