SAVE OLD CHURCHES
“ Church authorities have been considering the question of ‘ redundant ’ churches in York, Exeter, Lincoln, and elsewhere, and are proposing to pull them down and sell the sites. It is the devil and all when the Church starts thinking in commercial terms. Be logical about it, and the sites of St. Paul’s and the Abbey are extremely valuable; it is all a matter of degree,” writes J. C. Squire in the London Mercury. “If the Church doesn’t see the value, not merely historical and architectural, but religious (standing as they do in the midst of shops and trams) of the tiny, unfrequented, but reminding, red-sandston® churches in the main street of Exeter, other people must defend them. Disraeli, nearly a hundred years ago, warned us that we were going to mistake comfort for civilisation. It is about time that somebody reminded us that we are in danger of mistaking boys’ clubs for religion.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 2
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