SAVOY CHAPEL CHANGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1933, Page 4

SAVOY CHAPEL CHANGES

OVERSEAS VISITORS' CHURCH. LONDON, August 12. Innicent parties to divorce proceedings who remarry will no longer lie able to have a “benedictory service ’ in lIn: Savoy Chapel. .Services in future will conform to those at the Chapels Koya). . . The Savoy is to become a spiritual headquarters for visitors from, overseas and for international and Empire movements and societies which have no church of their own in London. These are the principal points in the programme of work of the new Chaplain of the Savoy, the Rev. Cyril Cresswell,. who has been appointed by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to succeed the late Rev. H. B. Chapman. Mr Cresswell told a representative of the “Daily Telegraph” yesterday, that, he did not intend to take advantage, as Mr Chapman had done, of the extra-parochial and extra-diocesan status of the chapel to marry

divorced persons there. “I am going to adhere loyally to the rule of the church in the matter,” he said. “I believe,” continued Mr Cresswed t, “that there is considerable scope in London for a chapel which is extraparochial and the chaplain of which 1 is free to encourage contacts with

i visitors from abroad and with, national and international Rotarian, Masonic and other movements. .. i • “The ordinary services will continue much as before, and I shall con-;, tinue to follow the middle way in mat. ters of ritual. But in addition I hop© to have many extra services. Thechapel has no parish. It must become the parish church in London fox* visi- .' tors who are temporarily without advparish themselves. “I have recently been to America as a delegate of Rotary International, ‘ and I am convinced that when Amelican people come over here they are. a little lost. The Savoy Chapel might become a very valuable con- - tact for international work.”