More than 400 churches close in a decade amid ‘shocking’ threat to parishes | the Telegraph

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“More than 400 churches have been shut down in less than a decade, The Telegraph can reveal, as senior clergy warn of the “shocking” threat
to parishes as “the bedrock of the Church of England”.”

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