HISTORIC CHURCHES.
OPPOSITION TO REMOVAL. PETITION TO PARLIAMENT. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Juy 20. A picturesque ceremonial was witnessed ifl the House of Commons to-dnv, and two City of London sheriffs, clad in scarlet, accompanied by the City Remembrancer, Colonel H. S. Sankev, attended at the Bar of the House and presented a petition praying that the Church Disposal Bill, which was introduced by the Bishop of London in the House of Lords, and passed by that Chamber yesterday, should not be presented for the King's assent. The petition set out that nine of the threatened churches had been built before the great fire of London, and that 32 others had been built by Sir Christopher Wren. These had berti maintained through the ages by the parish ratepayers. It was pleaded that these churches should not be closed without the consent of the latter. The petition claimed that the edifices are really national memorials of great historical and architectural value, and that their disposal should not be removed from the control of Parliament.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19386, 22 July 1926, Page 9
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