Saturday 10 February 2007

Brighton landmark church declared "redundant" by Diocesan Pastoral Committee

Ed: You can view St Peter's website here The location of St Peter's can be seen here (at the Y intersection of pink roads, below the College), and the abundance of surrounding crosses may indicate the problem. If anyone has any comments, please leave them here.

Brighton and Hove has been given two weeks to save its most prominent church - known as the "city's cathedral" - from closure.

Wardens, parishioners and residents are in shock after learning St Peter's Church in York Place, the parish church of Brighton, is expected to shut.

A letter from the Diocesan Pastoral Committee, a Church of England body in charge of churches in the city, said that "after much heart searching" they were going to recommend that the landmark building be made "redundant". Read more

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