UNITED KINGDOM
Lancashire Evening Post
An irate pensioner is threatening to chain herself to railings in protest at the shock closure of an historic city centre church.
Moira Cardwell will join other angry parishioners demonstrating outside the doomed St Ignatius RC in Preston tomorrow to condemn the “disgraceful” decision to shut it down after 178 years of worship.
The rare, pre-Victorian church, with a spectacular interior reputedly designed by world-renowned architect Augustus Pugin, has been earmarked for closure at the end of the month because of a shortage of priests.
The 140-strong congregation has been asked to relocate to sister church English Martyrs, almost a mile away.
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