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Article: Surplus churches await judgement day
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 28, 1994
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THE DAY of reckoning is nigh for City of London clergy waiting
anxiously for the conclusions of the Templeman Commission. Today
its long- awaited report will finally reveal which Grade I churches
are to be closed.
The commission is expected to recommend that a handful of
churches - possibly more - are made redundant. There are simply too
many churches in the Square Mile, where the resident population is
5,000, about 120 of whom attend services every week - an average
congregation of 3.3 worshippers for each of the 36 Anglican
churches.
Even allowing for worshippers among the 300,000 business people
who commute to the City on weekdays, it is not enough. Physically,
the entire congregation ...