ARCHBISHOP OPENS NEW CHURCH

ST. PANCRAS, LEWES
Made Necessary by Increase in Numbers
Lewes' fine new church — St. Pancras'—which was blessed and opened for use On Passion Sunday by the rector, the Rev. F. J. Flanagan, D.D., was officially opened by Archbishop Amigo, the Bishop of Southwark, on Sunday
evening last, April 30, when he administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to a large number of children and several adults. The Plainsong service was beautifully sung by St. Pancras' own choir.
The church has been erected on the site of the old church, and has cost £8,000, of which £4,000 has been raised through the rector's efforts. The congregation was much too large for the former church, and on Sunday the new one was crowded.
The new building has been designed after thirteenth-century style; is right in the heart of Lewes, and it serves a Catholic community that extends as far north as Chailey. Lewes had no Catholic church from the time of the Reformation until 1864.
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In his address His Grace said: " These are times of great anxiety, and we hear much talk about airraid precautions and bomb-proof shelters, but in the meantime don't let us forget Almighty God. Don't forget that our Catholic schools are in danger. Pray for them; pray for peace; and remember to pray for the dead bishops and priests."
His Grace concluded by congratulating the parish on its new church, the foundation stone of which he had laid last August, and by appealing to them to help the rector to clear off the remaining debt of £4,000.
Assisting His Grace and the rector was the latter's brother, the Rev. A. Flanagan, of Our Lady de la Salette.
The church has excellent schools attached, which were built nine years ago at a cost of 17,000, but already there is a danger of the senior pupils having to go to a non-Catholic school.
St. Pancras, to whom the church is dedicated, is the Roman boy martyr of the Blessed Sacrament.