STRANGE CHURCHES.
SERVICE HELD IN A.COWSHED
While a Parish Church in Sussex was being repaired recently the services were held in the rector’s cowshed, and an altar and an organ were erected there.
Queer churches are common in England, and there is one in a converted windmill on Reigate Heath. It seats about 25 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 in the wood” in the village of Hollington ? Regarded as one of ,the quaintest churches in England, it is situated in the heart of a wood. 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 sewed the skins together and then stretched them over whalebone “girders.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4921, 4 January 1926, Page 3
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190STRANGE CHURCHES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4921, 4 January 1926, Page 3
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