LONDON’S CHURCHES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27401, 29 May 1950, Page 8

LONDON’S CHURCHES

Repairs To Wartime Damage LONDON, Only seven of the city of London's 46 churches —all either damaged or destroyed by enemy action—are at present being repaired. These churches, dating from Saxon times to the early eighteenth century, include some of the most beautiful in the world. Today, tylers, paviours, glaziers, bricklayers and stone masons are at work on St. Mary’s, Abchurch street, St. Stephen's, Walbrook; bt Giles’s, Cripplegate; St. Margarets, Lothbury; St. Mary's, Aldermary; St Magnus the Martyr, Billingsgate, and St. Dunstan's-in-the-west, Gleet street The Rev. Michael M. Hodgins, secretary of the London Diocesan Fund said today: “ Suggestions will soor, be made about the future of some of the churches where there is no resident population. They are on very valuable sites, and one of the problems is that there are 46 parishes in the city with g population barely enough for one.” Mr Hodgins added that all per ; mitted repairs were being done anc where four walls and a roof existed the churches were already being used or would be soon. —(Reuter).