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Posted 13 min 29 sec ago
St Andrew’s Church in the Lincolnshire village of Apley has to be one of the smallest in the county. A cheerful little Victorian edifice from 1871, it may once have served as a mortuary chapel where corpses were stored ahead of burials. An older church nearby was demolished and that which was dedicated to the dead became a place of fellowship for the living.
Posted 1 day 13 min ago
St Peter's Church, Chesil, in the Hampshire city of Winchester, is one of those older churches which has been put to secular use. I don’t particularly mind this and find it less offensive than converting into a non-Christian shrine or a carpark. It is now known as the Chesil Theatre, the home of the Winchester Dramatic Society. I rather like the look of it.
Posted 2 days 13 min ago
I came across these men of African descent engaged in evangelism in Leicester this year. They had complained that the staff from the City Council had ‘moved them on’ to this quieter spot, away from the busy streets. One of them sardonically observed to me that the local Muslim evangelists were seemingly exempt from any Council objections, whose stalls occupied the best positions.
Posted 4 days 13 min ago
Rivington Church, which pleasingly has no saintly dedication, is in the pretty little village between Blackburn and Bolton, which it shares with the Unitarian Rivington Chapel, which was once Presbyterian. In its grounds, there is a remarkable number of seventeenth-century gravestones, one of which goes back to James I, in 1616:
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