OLD CHURCHES PUT TO STRANGE USES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 322, 22 January 1908, Page 4

OLD CHURCHES PUT TO STRANGE USES.

The I'ael that Exeter Hall is to l,e turned into an hole] i, causing real sorrow to many c-niiialilc people. They may take coimWt, however, lor oth'r consecrated edifices have been made to serve base u.,e.s ere uow, liowland Mill's old chapel in the lilac-k----friars lioad, for instance, i- at present doing duty a, a motor garage, after having for many year- served a- a warehouse for a firm ol agricultural implement makers. At L'laphani Common i- a poi>t-nliicc tliat once was a ISaplist Church, ami the parcels post-oilice at .Mount l'leasant utilises the old Coldbath-iiolds prison chapel a« an olllce and storehouse. Hull possesses a one-time church that is now a smithy. The t'riory Church, ChiChester, is a cricket pavilion. Beigate has, or had, three deivli.d ehurchets, used respectively as a prison. a dwelling-house, and a wind-mill. At Hawkshcad, in Lancashire, an ancient church, dating back to pre-lieforniation times, has been transformed into a barn. The twin towers of a church at MiStle..-, in Essex, are iti-ed as general warehouse.,. At llarclay A: I'erkhi,' great brewery in the East End of London, there wa- to be seen, up till ipiile recently, a ipiaker' ehapel tilled chock toll ..»" empty beer barrels. A ISristol chapel forms an integral portion of a chocolate factory; while a recent inland-revenue return showed that no fewer than twenty-three ancient crypt* and old church 'cellars, situated in different putts ol the kingdom, have been converted into underground storehouses for wines and spirits.