New Building: Week 14 - Ceiling

The new building has now reached the first floor!

Here is the ceiling of the new parish office, bar and kitchen on the ground floor:

Standing at the bar and looking south, you can see the door and window of the new office:

And from the window, you can see where the bar will go:

Fr Daniel has been to inspect the site. Here he is standing in the new office:

Fr Dominic has been checking up on things too!

The steels have been put in the ground floor ceiling of the old parish centre — they will take the weight of the books in the new library.

And finally, the boiler house walls are slowly rising.

New Building: Week 13 - Walls

“And he ordered workmen to build the walls...”

—1 Maccabees 10:11

New Building: Week 12 - Parish Office

“And the people in prayer besought the Lord the most High, until the worship of the Lord was perfected, and they had finished their office.”

—Sirach 50:21

Above you can see the outer wall of the new Parish office. The wooden frames show where the window and door will be.

A couple of shots of the inside.

The window in this wall is very important — it will light the bar!

And the spaces have been made ready for the steel bars that will support the weight of the new library. The steel bars will arrive soon.

New Building: Week 11 - Office taking shape

More bricks this week. And more drains of course:

But much more interestingly, you can see before and after shots below of the future Parish office. The gap in the concrete blocks is where the door will go.

New building: Week 10 - More bricks

...8000 more bricks in fact, in the last week.

Some work has been done on the foundations around the edge of the building:

And the ground floor ceiling in the Parish Centre has been removed to put in the steel bars that will take the weight of the library's 10,000 books.

New Building: Week 9 - Bricks

New Building: Week 8 - Floors and walls

Last week there were some important visitors to the site:

Here are the finished foundations.

Then some concrete beams arrived...

...which went on top of the foundations...

...to form a floor:

Here is another view of that gap where the stairs were. You can also see a glimpse of the first walls rising.

And of course, we wouldn't want to forget the drains.