FUTURE OF ST. PAUL’S.
MUST NpT BE ISOLATED. LONDON, May 7. Canon S. A. Alexander, of St. Paul’s Cathedral, in a sermon on the anniversary Of Christopher Wren’s death, said that in the reconstruction of the City the cathedral’s future was first and foremost a religious question. “Could Wren have seen our desolated areas —no worse in our day than in his —he would, no doubt, now as then, have resented the intrusion of lofty, ill-proportioned buildings on his allotted space,” he said. “But, even more now than then, his motto would have been ‘St. Paul’s for the people.’ “Everything that might tend to make the cathedral remote, detached, isolated, even in the fancy of the multitude and much more in its actual accessibility, would have been as objectionable to him as the chancelscreen which for a century and a-half barred men's approach to the altar.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 205, 12 June 1945, Page 3
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