FLOODLIT ALTAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 266, 9 November 1935, Page 14

FLOODLIT ALTAR.

HOOTER FOR BELL. BRITAIN'S MOST MODERN CHURCH. (.Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, October 19. Imagine a semi-circle of shining corrugated iron, closed at the ends, with small porches let into the curving sides, set on a rough plot of land in the middle of a growing housing estate, and you will understand what the most modern church in England looks like. It is the Church of Holy Angels at Cranford, Middlesex, and this week it was dedicaled by the Bishop of Kensington. Seating 250, it will serve an areS. where 4000 people live, with no parish church within miles of them. The rector of Cranford, the Rev. Maurice Child, explained how the church would be decorated when finished. At the moment tube-like walls, painted—as the vicar described it —"dog biscuit brown," soar over a green cement floor, and only the very essentials of a place | of worship are ready.

"We intend to paint these walls in bright colours," said the rector, "but we shall not decide on the colour until all the fittings are in place. The altar, which can be floodlit, is' of white concrete, with steps polished black to resemble marble. We have concealed lighting that can be dimmed when the service ie in progress. Except for the shell of the building itself, everything has been done by local labour. Our harmonium was contributed by a publichouse, for instance.

"Our hymn board will be electrically worked on the principle of a tube indicator, and I think we shall inatall a hooter instead of bells to call the people to worship."