50 Uses for Removed Pews

1. Sentry box for the vicar to stand and see if anyone's coming to the service
2. Pub furniture
3. Log cabin
4. Doors
5. Full-size replica of the Marie Celeste
6. Skirting boards
7. A kids' castle in the garden

   

   "Bad news, vicar. It's not just the pews they took out"

8. Victorian rabbit hutch for a Victorian rabbit
9. Raised vegetables beds 
10. Fuel for a wood burning stove (unless varnished - very bad for the environment)
11. Mulch
12. Filing cupboards for old PCC minutes
13. Gothic trellises
14. Replica Gutenberg Printing Press
15. Big mysterious boxes as a public art installation 
16. Temporary cover for holes in the roof
17. Pitch pine flooring
18. Pulpit
19. Building material for the church's pet wasps
20. Shelving
21. Cricket sight screen
22. Add wheels and make a go kart
23. Grinling Gibbons-themed cat scratchers
24. The sauna that mysteriously appeared in the vicarage garden 
25. Bat boxes - to be put anywhere but inside the church
26. Painting icons on
27. Really really posh pallets
28. Box for very short readers to stand on
29. Tree house
30. Skateboard ramp
31. Frames for big pictures
32. Eastenders actor
33. Obstacles in the Church Over 60s Assault Course
34. Rot-proof sledge
35. Giant bats for playing geese-ball (except in countries with any kind of animal cruelty laws)
36. Trojan Horse 
37. Bookshelves
38. Plank to make the vicar walk into the village duck pond if the sermon fails to entertain
39. Coffin for the person over whose dead body they were removed
40. Wood panelling in one of them really old-fashioned looking studies or meetings rooms
41. Seesaws
42. Rustic planters
43. Windmill
44. Museum exhibit of what pews look like
45. Television cabinet
46. Dog kennel
47. Swansea City back 4
48. Norwegian-style "stave church"
49. Garden shed
50. Pews in another church where they're removing the chairs.

(Thanks to Phil Ritchie for passing on the info that Chelmsford Diocese have a 51st use)

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