STRANGE CHURCHES
■SERVICE HELD IN A COWSHED.
.While a parish church in Sussex was being repaired recently the services Avere held in the rector s cowshed, and an altar and an organ weie erected there. Queer churches are common in England, and there is one in a converted windmill on Reigate Heath. It seats about twenty-five worshippers, and is crowded at every service. Thousands of Londoners do not know that a shop belonging to a cutler and optician, in Bishopgate Street, is actually a church. A close inspection reveals that above the shop is a belfry that has been there for over a century. . Who has heard of “ the church m the Avood” in the village of Hollington? Regarded as one of the quaintest churches in England, it is situated in the heart of a Avood. There is a legend that the foundations were originally laid in the village, but the devil disagreed with the site and moved the stone to its present position. On Blacklead Island in the Arctic Ocean, stands a church constructed entirely of seal skins. A missionary seAved the skins together and then stretched them over whalebone “ girders.’
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1690, 24 November 1925, Page 6
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192STRANGE CHURCHES Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1690, 24 November 1925, Page 6
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