Titlebook: Redundancy, Community and Heritage in the Modern Church of England, 1945–2000; Closing the Church D Denise Bonnette Book 2023 The Editor(s)

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Community: Cultural and Demographic Change, Reaction and Response,f the twentieth century. It examines what kept specific church buildings open while others closed. It analyses the contributing factor of the geographical position of the church in its redundancy, as a consequence of urban modernisation, suburbanisation and rural depopulation. The repercussions of a

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Collaboration: Church of England Agencies and the Heritage Movement,eate a systematic church redundancy process. Key personalities, their motivations, passion, influence and effects feature in this chapter, since they created a lasting legacy. The subsequent PM1968 legislation established a powerful, top-down, expert-driven process that caused significant difficulti

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Conclusion,t causes. A changing population, financial challenges, maintenance issues and lack of clergy on the ground could potentially tip a church into redundancy. Central Church of England and diocesan strategies created to respond to social and cultural change could exacerbate problems. However, many churc

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ty of redundancy and identifies explicit causes as key tippiThis book is a reappraisal of Anglican Church redundancy from a cultural perspective. It challenges long-held perceptions about the rationale for church redundancy, particularly secularisation. It argues that redundancy brought to the surfa

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The Church, the State and National Heritage: Contentious Debate,gy and parishes towards the bishops from 1943 onwards, and how this affected church redundancy is highlighted. There is an analysis of the strengthening of the autonomy of the established Church away from state intervention, which created unresolved tensions for the church redundancy process.

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,The Church as an Institution—Finance, Ministry, Repair and Redundancy,ifications of slow bureaucratic redundancy processes are explored, particularly for churches for which it was difficult to find alternative use. These empty redundant churches were a symbol of Christian decline.

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Collaboration: Church of England Agencies and the Heritage Movement,at was determined ‘outstanding’, is examined, followed by an analysis of the type and age of churches preserved by the RCF, found alternative use or demolished. Examples of the views of the parish community being sidelined by both the Church and the heritage bodies are provided.