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Esmé partridge wrote an interesting report on this last year researching church closures and the decline of the ancient system of Parishes in the UK. She makes a number of interesting observations but one of the key one is around church closures.

Its a sorry state of affairs when a country that has for most of my life always had its churches left unlocked and open, cannot trust they won't be vandalised in some cases.

She suggests that rather than locking churches that can't be staffed we can used new technological systems, have a centralised oversight center connected to digital doorlocks so that people can still get access to Rural churches.

https://www.civitas.org.uk/publications/restoring-the-value-of-parishes/

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