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Article: All Souls Church Closes.
- Article from:
- Hastings & St. Leonards Observer (St. Leonards-on-Sea, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2007
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AFTER 116 years All Souls church closed its doors for the last time on Sunday, following its final service.
AFTER 116 years All Souls church closed its doors for the last time on Sunday, following its final service.
The Clive Vale church has suffered falling congregation numbers, and has been put in temporary closure.
It is expected to eventually be made redundant by Chichester diocese chiefs, and the service on Sunday was likely to have been the last parishioners take part in.
The foundation stone was laid on All Souls day, November 2, in 1889 by the designer Victorian architect Sir Arthur Bloomfield, who also built Christchurch in St ...