St Luke's being rebuilt in 1960
Residents launch bid to save Cobholm church from closure
Thursday, October 4, 2012
6:10 PM
COBHOLM residents have launched a campaign to save a much loved church amid fears it could close.
St Luke’s in Mill Road has shut temporarily as it needs major electrical work along with several other repairs, and determined residents have now organised a meeting to gauge public feeling in a bid to safeguard the church from permanent closure.
Erika Chalkley, from neighbourhood development programme Make It Happen, said there was strong local feeling towards St Luke’s and many people had fond memories of it.
“Everyone I bump into has got a story; they got married there or their children were christened there so there’s a big strength of public feeling, and we wanted to hold a meeting to start a campaign to save the church to bring all those feelings together,” she added.
St Luke’s Reverend Christopher Terry said the building needed an estimated £100,000 spent on it, which in “reality” the church was unlikely to be able to raise.
“To raise £100,000 for that building is impractical,” he added.
The meeting is being held tomorrow (Friday) at 2pm at the Cobholm and Lichfield Health and Resource Centre in Pasteur Road.
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3 comments
Why is spendind £100.000 on a church inpractical? The church has an a affection with the local community, I appreciate the church may have not been kept in good repair, but people are now willing to get it to a reusable condition..Let them try, It can be amazing what can be achieved, when like minded people work as a team
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lucy
Friday, October 5, 2012
Why is spendind £100.000 on a church inpractical? The church has an a affection with the local community, I appreciate the church may have not been kept in good repair, but people are now willing to get it to a reusable condition..Let them try, It can be amazing what can be achieved, when like minded people work as a team
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lucy
Friday, October 5, 2012
£100,000 is a hell of a lot of money needed to repair this church.Sign of the times when people scream out for it to be saved yet the place is hardly ever used.Best bulldozed and some affordable houses erected in it's place,with no-one earning over a certain wage applying to buy the properties and nobody without a job being allowed a look in either.
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wes1975
Thursday, October 4, 2012