£85,000 FOR A CHURCH
LORD DULVERTON’S GIFTS LONDON, Fob. 28. Lord Dulverton, chairman of tho Imperial Tobacco Company, has added £IO,OOO to his previous gifts of £75,000 for the complete restoration of the Church of St. Mary RedCliffe, Bristol. His original gift, of £60.000, wars made three years ago; but ns repairs proceeded the stone Was l'oundi to have decayed so seriously that Lord Duherton provided another £15,000. but even this was not sufficient to complete the work. >St. Mary liedeliffe was once described by Queen Elizabeth as the ‘(goodliest parish church in England.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18063, 13 April 1933, Page 4
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94£85,000 FOR A CHURCH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18063, 13 April 1933, Page 4
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