BRIGHTER CHURCHES
HULL VICAR’S LEAD. LONDON, July 4. Declaring that the Church had too long been content with bad music and stodgy, gloomy colouring, giving young people an idea that religion was something fusty and dull, the vicar of St. John’s, Newington, near Hull, decided to renovate his church. Previously, it was decorated in accordance with strictest Victorian ideas, but the church will open next Sunday with applegreen pews, black choir stalls, orange carpets, a floodlighted chancel blazing in vermillion gold, and white, pillars painted grey, arches, ceilings, and nave in white, with green rafters matching the pews. “The Church should proclaim something of the joy of worship,” said the vicar, “and I hope that St. John’s will give a world-wide lead.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 July 1931, Page 12
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