NEW LONDON CHURCHES

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1930, Page 11

NEW LONDON CHURCHES

FORTY-FIVE TO BE BUILT. Forty-five new churches are to bo built during the next few years to meet the needs of the vast housing estates springing up on the outskirts of,. London. Already these great dormitory areas, as they are called, constitute a semi-circle of brick and mortar stretching from the river at Brentford, through Hayes, Acton, Ealing, Wembley and Harn TOW.. .. ... .. - • . -. ' • There are between 7Q,000 and, 80,000 new houses, with a population of 400,000, which, within the next two years, will have grown to 500,000. So rapidly hag this avalanche of building descended, that the church has been unable t<) cope with it, and many thousands of the new residents have no place of worship within reach of their homes. The London Diocese has mapped th® new estates into 45 areas, in 28 of which sites have been already secured for churches, halls and vicarages. In the other 17 cases no provision has yeft been made at all. - Efforts are being made locally to raise fnoney for the new churches, but as the residents are mostly of liinited. resources it is impossible for them to contribute the whole sum required. To raise the balance of £250,000 a special appeal has been issued, signed by the Bishop of London, the". Lord Chancellor, the Lord Mayor - and Sir Montague Barlow (chairman of the London Diocesan Church Extension Appeal). “The need brooks no delay,” states the appeal, which has been named “The Forty-five Churches Fund.” “Sites, missioners, halls, vicarages, churches, religious education for ths young—for all these, proper plans must be laid—and at once,” Both thfe' Kihg^and 1 Queen have sent rfqnd. -.,<, ; ;v!