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• The Guardian view on crumbling churches: a social vocation can save them for the nation | Editorial

  02-02-2024 18:50
  
  A vital part of Britain’s architectural heritage is at risk. But the future need not be one of terminal declineIn The Voices of Morebath, a groundbreaking study of the life of a 16th-century West Country parish, the eminent historian Prof Eamon Duffy vividly evokes the fundraising “ales” which helped pay for building upkeep in churches across the country.Home-brewed beer and music from travelling minstrels were frequently on offer at these raucous occasions, which were “a
  
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• ‘I’m devastated it’s closing’: London shoppers say farewell to Fenwick

  02-02-2024 12:51
  
  Department store on New Bond Street, which opened in 1890s, closes its doors this weekendMore than 130 years after it opened, the London flagship Fenwick department store will close its doors for the last time on Saturday.The four-storey shop in New Bond Street, Mayfair, is shutting after the retailer – which is owned by more than 40 descendants of John James Fenwick, who founded the company with a single store in Newcastle in 1882 – sold the property to developers for £430m. C
  
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• A ‘vertical community’: Le Corbusier’s project at Marseille – archive, 2 Feb 1949

  02-02-2024 06:30
  
  2 February 1949: Cité Radieuse will be more like a town than an apartment building, says the Swiss-French architectIn France today, Le Corbusier, professionally speaking, is having the time of his life. His new housing project at Marseille has probably aroused more determined opposition than anything he has built, or tried to build before. He is not the man to shrink from public controversy, nor has he conceived his latest and, in some ways, his most daring designs in order to allay his c
  
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