
Damage to a brick chimney in St Albans.
Damage to a brick chimney in St Albans.
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Shot a music video in here 2 weeks ago.
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A photograph of St Paul's Church on Gayhurst Road.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "St John's Latimer Square church".
Along Glouster St, as we run to the car.
A photograph of fallen bricks at St. Luke's Anglican Church.
Damage to St John the Baptist Church in Latimer Square.
Damage in a stairwell inside a house in St Albans.
Damage in a stairwell inside a house in St Albans.
A photograph of the cracks between the windows of St Elmo Courts on the corner of Hereford and Montreal Streets.
St John the Baptist Church on Latimer Square. The masonry of the bell tower has crumbled onto the lawn, exposing the inside. Damage to the roof and the tip of the gable can also be seen.
Damage to the bell tower of St John's Church on Hereford Street. The stones have crumbled, exposing the inside of the tower. They are still lying where they fell. Damage can also be seen on the roof.
The back of St John the Baptist Church on Hereford Street near Latimer Square. The tower has crumbled revealing the inner structure. The fallen bricks have been stacked on pallets, some still lying in the grass.
The east wall of St Luke's Church on Manchester Street. The top of the wall has broken away and is now covered with plastic to prevent weather damage inside the building.
Structural damage to St Elmo Courts with diagonal cracks between the windows of the building. These cracks show that there has been rocking of the masonry piers which means there is no vertical reinforcement provided in the walls.
St John's Anglican Church in Hororata. The top of the bell tower has collapsed into the roof of the church, some falling onto the ground below where it still lies.
The bell tower of St John's Anglican Church in Hororata. The top of the tower has collapsed, and many of the bricks have crumbled along the side into the roof of the church. A skip has been lifted up by a crane next to the tower with a man inside.
St John's Anglican Church in Hororata. The top of the bell tower has collapsed into the roof of the church, some falling onto the ground below where it still lies.
St John's Anglican Church in Hororata with a broken bell tower. Unfortunately the top fell through the church roof. A high fence topped with barbed wire has since been erected to keep the souvenir hunters away.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Canterbury earthquake. St Johns church in Hororata".
Stones fallen from St John the Baptist Church in Latimer Square.
Kilmore St. Designed by Frances Willis, built by Charles Luney,1929.
Columbo St Sydenham. Would not have like to been in there!
Old churches and earthquakes do not mix well.
Okains Bay Banks Peninsula New Zealand
The base of the tower on the right of this picture has sunk about 25cm so that the lower course of bricks have disappeared below ground level. Meanwhile the other end of the building has sunk about 50cm splitting the building into thirds. The sand you can see is what came bubbling up out of the ground due to liquifaction. Unfortunately the build...