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• Churches must diversify and adapt to stop the rot | Letters

  09-02-2024 19:05
  
  Readers respond to an editorial on crumbling churches and reveal how they can better serve communities todayYour editorial (2 February) was right to highlight the importance of using churches as “local anchor institutions” and to praise the National Churches Trust report calling for an expansion of the secular uses of church buildings.In Droxford, a small Hampshire village, we have rescued our Grade I Norman church from the brink of ruin to become a thriving community hub.
  
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• ‘We always dreamed of building our own house – so we did’

  09-02-2024 12:00
  
  How architect duo Surman Weston created a striking family home – complete with a greenhouse on the roofA striking red-brick cube stands on a backstreet corner in Peckham, south London, its walls appearing to dissolve as they rise towards the top, where trailing plants spill through the brickwork, their dangling foliage giving it the air of an overgrown ruin.Part monolithic block, part gossamer screen, this arresting house is the work of Surman Weston, a pair of young ar
  
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