A FAMOUS CHURCH

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 419, 28 April 1937, Page 7

A FAMOUS CHURCH

ALL HALLOWS, LONDON To Be Pulled Down All Hallows, 4he famous Lomwn C'i'y church, said to have been design -d by Wren, is to be abolished, and the b nefice combined 'With that >f St. Edmund he King, Lombard Street, says -the Daily Telegiaph That is the effect of a decision by h Daw Lords of the Privy Council — Viscount Sankey, Lord Blanesburgh, and Lord Alnt.sc—who had Heard arguments for and against a scheme put forward by -the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Cc-mmistloners' scheme is to pull down All Hallows, sell th • si’e, which, id has been isuggss'.ed, is worm at 1 ast £150,000, and build elsewhere n the London diocese another church •:f All Hallows. The Corporation of th? City of London, ia group of societies hsaded by the Royal Academy,'and Mr P. A. Mol eno, a former M.P., *v.'ho claimed to be a parishioner, protested against the prosposal. Di livering the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Lord Sankey said that, in weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of the scheme, the commitUo had taken account of 4h.?< opinion of those immediately concerned with the churches. The rector of All Hallows had said that both he and the parochial church c ouncil felt that the ess: nee of the si.nation was that the church wa.s not needed as a parish church and that everything for the s pin‘ual welfare of the par.sh could be bett r done under the scheme. The rector of St. Edmund s‘ate-1 that the activities of All Hallows could be carried on at St. Edmund, and that St. Dionis Hall, if improved as. was intended, would be a great boon to the parish. Regarding that hall, the committee felt that no doubt many persons Ware accustomed to think of the City of London as a place where enormously wealthy in* erests were collected. Thiat was true, but those activities’ were not carried on without employing all sorts of people. In St. Dionis Hall there was carried on a work for the errand boy, the office boy, and the boy who left secondary or elementary schools and nt straight into the City sand drew some sma 11 remuneration. One of the great advantages of the scheme was that it would enable that work to be carried on to greater advantage.