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4 March 2021 • 12:02am
Lady of the manor, 11th-century Godiva, cradles a cat at St George’s church, Woolhope
Credit: Liam Bunce/Alamy
SIR – The Rev David Keighley says: “It is sinful not to sell empty churches” (report, March 2). By his definition, my local parish church is “a museum gathering dust”. I beg to differ.
Our congregations rarely exceed 30, other than for major festivals and (in non-Covid circumstances) weddings and funerals, but possibly they have not done so for centuries past.
Yet the church has been at the heart of the village since before the Norman Conquest and, God willing, will remain so for at least another millennium.