The Church of England is dying out and selling up
Even if you don’t go to church, this matters
Push open the heavy door and step inside. The sound as it slams behind you will feel loud, almost rude, in the old, cold silence. For St Torney’s Church in Cornwall is very old indeed. The Normans built it. The Tudors enlarged it. The Victorians meddled with it. Daphne du Maurier immortalised it in “Jamaica Inn”. It has outlasted the Reformation and the civil war.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Churchgoing, going…gone? ”
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