October 8 consecrated the nave which presents the first portion of the permanent church for the newly-formed parish of St. Mildred, Addiscombe, Croydon. The design was by the late Mr. Cecil G. Hare (of Messrs, Hadley and Mare), who died in July.
A wreath wan laid at the foot of a memorial to the architect.
The Archbishop said that on these ocasiona the importance of the architect wax too seldom remembered. According to the quality of hix work he might be n blessing or ban on whole generations of worshippers. Architects of old gave us the splendour of our English cathedrals and old parish churches. Compared with these one could only regret the vulgarity of taste by which architects of the nineteenth century so often hindered the future of the worship of the people called upon to. use the churches designed. But for that church there was every reason to thank the late architect. He had not, ax so often happened, slavishly copied an undesirable example, and filled it in with "little irrelevant prettinesses," such as wore known in the nineteenth century, bat with boldness, skill, originality, and loyalty to the spirit' of worship had provided building spacious, noble, and truly relevant tothe rea) purposes for which it wax built Proto by courterly Me. 3. batt wf, the paratively little evidence of ite tery ordeal. the Yangtackiang, atd is entirely populated by Chinese,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.