This is the Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul in Pléneuf-Val-André, France
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This is actually not uncommon.
Churches are often in good locations for mobile coverage.They’re connected to God already
I always love these well camouflaged ones:
There’s one in my home town with about one tenth of the effort made to camouflage it in the same way. That one’s not even next to any trees.
One of my hobbies as a stupid young man was breaking into roof spaces connected to my city’s skywalk system, which I lived in.
You would be surprised how many buildings have these inside them, where you can’t see them at all. If it’s too difficult to get them rooftop or there’s a code against them, or they don’t want residents complaining about 5G in their buttholes, they just go inside the elevator room or somewhere tucked away.
If they are built inside the building does that not severly reduce their usability? Especially in the case of 5G?
They look a helluva lot better than those fake trees I see a lot of. One of those in my front yard.
Holy shit, finally, a use for this skyline clutter. A normal tower would cost less to maintain though.
I think from all the stuff that makes a skyline look awful, I feel that a beautiful Gothic style church is not one of them.
A normal tower would also cost more to put up than it would to rent out the church spire.
Exactly why I mentioned maintenance costs, somebody’s still paying to keep the church from falling apart. Also don’t see too many stories in the news about radio towers providing a sanctuary for child molesters so they’ve got that advantage over churches too.
I think that almost everyone’s point of view (including mine) in this situation is “it’s already there, it’s the height we need, why not use it?”
Your last point, while true, was entirely unrelated to the discussion so I’m not sure why you felt the need to bring that up.
Because it’s a downside of churches that doesn’t come with radio towers. Something to consider while evaluating pros and cons.
