Good Lord! More than 400 churches close in a decade sparking fears for future ...
Good Lord! More than 400 churches close in a decade sparking fears for future of parishes Church of England data showed 940 churches shut between 1987 and 2019 And figures show that 423 were closed from 2010 to 2019 Across the 42 Church of England dioceses there are now around 15,490 left
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More than 400 churches have closed in a decade, posing what a senior clergyman warned was a 'shocking' threat to parishes.
Analysis of Church of England data found that 940 of its churches were shut between 1987 and 2019. And the figures show that 423 were closed from 2010 to 2019.
Across the Church's 42 dioceses there are on average almost 6 per cent fewer
