Nurses ‘accept need to relocate chapel’
Most members of the Christchurch School of Nursing Association accepted the need to relocate the historic Christchurch Hospital chapel, said the association’s president, Mrs Lois Newton, yesterday.
She said most members had “some time ago” understood and accepted the decision to relocate the chapel to the new Christchurch Hospital complex. “Most -people do not
realise the old chapel will not be used by patients where it is, once the new wing is built.” The old chapel would be left isolated between two busy roads after the demolition of the surrounding buildings. “It would be permanently locked up, denying ready accessibility to patients or relatives,” said Mrs Newton. Most of the more than 1400 nurses who regis-
tered at the 1987 Christchurch Hospital School of Nursing reunion contributed to the chapel relocation fund, she said. “We regret the necessity to shift the chapel but we must face up to practicalities.” Mrs Newton said the association was grateful it could retain the links with the past by incorporating features of the interior into the new chapel.
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