Putney (I've been asked)

This story related to a certain wonderful Anglican building in Putney it became obvious that the building needed a few changes to make it more user-friendly. So the PCC decided to apply for a faculty to do the works. A notice was placed in the porch outlining the intended changes and eventually no faculty was issued because of the complaints from members of the local Victorian, William Morris or some other Society!

One of the members of the offending society visited the building and explained that we were effectively 'guests' in a building that was a monument to William Morris I explained that I thought she was confusing the church building with Kelmscott or Walthamstow and that what she stood in was a container for the people of God. Further discussion revealed this person's contempt for Christianity and her opinion that because she could afford a house near to the building she, and her fellow society members had a right to, "Keep things as they should be!"

I recall being appalled that a bunch of apparently educated, moderately well off (she was a little unchuffed when I called her 'aspiring working class') people can damage the work of a church. I did ask whether the society would like to take on the running and maintenance costs of the building as they held it so dear but apparently it wasn't that dear!!!

The curse of church being limited by so called intelligent morons who appreciate everything except that which they choose not too (especially when it is Church) - mind you my Putney experience was some twenty years ago and was perhaps an averaging rather than the norm. Then again I expect the Putney effect lives on in other places. Makes me glad we occupy a building built some twenty-five years ago :)

Pax