LONDON'S OLD CHURCHES
PARLIAMENT PETITIONED TO
SAVE THEM.
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Asm.) (Received 21st July, noon.)
LONDON, 20th Jnly. A picturesque ceremonial was witnessed by the House of Commons when two City of London Sheriffs, clad in Scarlet, accompanied by a remembrancer, attended the Bar of the House and presented a petition praying that the Bishop of London's Church Disposal Bill be not presented for the King's consent.
The petition pointed ont that nine of the threatened churches were built before the Great Fire of .uondon, 1666, and thirty-two others, bui' 1 by Christopher Wren. These had been maintained through the ages by the parish ratepayers, without whose consent the churches should not be closed. They were really national memorials and of great historical and architectural value. Their disposal should not be removed from the control of Parliament.
The House of Lords, by 71 rotes to 54, passed the Bishop of London's measure, permitting the disposal of nineteen city churches, which have been the subject of much controversy in recent years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 18, 21 July 1926, Page 9
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