SHEFFIELD DIVORCE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 452, 4 January 1934, Page 3

SHEFFIELD DIVORCE

FUNDS FOR NEW CHURCHES The Bishop of Sheffield, three years ago, appealed for 100,060 guineas to be raised by the end of October this yeai for the building of new churches all through the diocese, and at a meeting at Sheffield in November it was announced that 108,000 guineas in actual cash had been received. There were scenes of enthusiasm, and at the close of the meeting a number of clergymen attached ropes to tl Bishop’s motor-car ai 1 pulled it through the main streets of the city accompanied by a cheering crowd. The achievement is specially remarkable for an , area which has passed through a period of grave industrial depression, and because of the fact that during the second year of the appeal the people of Sheffield raised an additional sum of nearly £50,000 for the Sheffield Royal Hospital. THANKSGIVING SERVICE All Bristol turned out recently to join with the Archbishop of Canterbury in a great service of thanksgiving for the restoration of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol’s historic church, described by Queen Elizabeth as the,fairest parish church in England. _ For three years the beautiful fabric has been undergoing restoration at the expense of Lord Dulverton, who has spent £85,000. on the work. Lately he saw the restoration completed and heard the cheers of thousands of Bristolians who surged round the church, and, unable to gain admission to the thanksgiving service, waited several hours in the streets outside to receive the Archbishop’s blessing delivered in the glare of floodlights from the steps of the north porch. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort were with Lord Dulverton' at the service, and near to them sat the masons and workmen who had laboured on the work of restoration.