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Church site in town: any advice welcome

CAN you help in the following request for advice which comes from an Anglican Vicar: "We are exploring the possibility of developing our town centre church site. This will entail demolishing the present church, church hall and parsonage, and replacing them with a development consisting of shops, offices and flats within which will be accommodation for worship, parish meetings and administration but not in separate buildings.
This is a major enterprise and although we accept that we will not get it 100 per cent right, we
Stamford Hill's loss
OBITUARY
FR GUY Brinkworth Si who died, aged 84, was best known for his work as Headmaster of St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill, from 1939-1963. Since 1970 he had been chaplain to the Sisters of Mercy in Fishguard, and had been a prolific writer on personal spirituality. In his last days Fr Brinkworth was cared for by the Sisters of Mercy at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth.
Fr Brinkworth was born in Singapore and educated by the Jesuits there and at Wimbledon College. He joined the Society in 1919. Before ordination, he studied at London University and Heythrop, Oxon, and taught at Wimbledon College.
After ordination he taught for a year, in 1935-36, at St Aloysius College, Glasgow, and then for two years was Prefect of Studies at St Francis Xavier's, Liverpool. in 1939 he went as Headmaster to St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill.
He saw the expansion of the school after the 1944 Act, and the beginning of The Campion School at Hornchurch, which opened in 1962, a year before he left Stamford Hill. want to be as near perfection as possible.
We would be pleased to be in touch with other Christian groups who have experience in a similar enterprise and would be grateful if you could encourage people with such experience to contact us.
For obvious reasons it is not possible for us to reveal our name and address.
It you have any experience to offer, please write to "Town Centre Church" c/o Catholic Herald, Lambs Passage, Bunhill Row, London EC4.
Pilgrimage events
PRINCIPAL Pilgrimages to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham from March to June are as follows: March: 6/7/8, Catholic Association of Young Adults.
April: 17/19 Student Cross; 22/25 Focolare.
May: 9 Westminster WA Mass Westminster Cathedral, and Brentwood Diocese; 23 Deaf Pilgrimage; 24 Salford Diocese; 25 Anglican National Pilgrimage.
June: 6 CWL and Leeds Diocese; 7 Fax Christi and Hallam Diocese; 13 Birmingham Diocese; 14 Italian Pilgrimage; 16/17 Catholic Nurses Guild; 20 Vocations Pilgrimage; 21 West Indian Pilgrimage and Nottingham Diocese; 27 Shrewsbury Diocese; Caritas Banneux ANY; 28 East Anglia Visit Pro-Nuncio.
The season is under the leadership of Fr Peter Allen SM, Director of the Shrine. Further details from Fr John Hawkes, Assistant Director of the Shrine. The Shrine in the fourteenth century Slipper Chapel is under the care of the Marist Fathers. It was founded in 1061, destroyed in 1538, and restored this century.
Czech held
PRAY for Fr Frantisek Lizna, Si, who has served four prison sentences and is being continually harassed by the authorities in Czechoslovakia.




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