1927-12-17 — Page 19

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THE OVERCROWDED ABBEY.

NO ROOM FOR ANY MORE MEMORIALS.

PROPOSED NEW SHRINE.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17,

for the Abbey as the chief centre. of the nation's reniembrance of its illustrious dead.

. We dismiss at once the iden of building some Hall of Fame on another site. A hall of this kind, whatever its architectural merits might be, lacking all the profound associations, historical and reli- gions, of the Abbey would be a mere empty shell-a body without a soul.

We regard the suggestion that" the Abbey might now be regarded as closed as a mero counsel of despair.

Westminster Abbey, the Em pire's most famous shrine, is so filled with memorials and mon ments that no room remains to commemorate the nation's illus. We are thus driven to the gon- triots dead..

chision that to meet the urgency the Cathe-of the problem a new building ought in the immediate future to the Abbey be erected within

rounds and in close connexion with the Abbey Church.

In the opinion of drals Commission of the Church Assembly, whose report is issued to-day, there is an urgent need of additional buildings.

The Commission endorses the views expressed by the sub-rum- mission in Westminster Abbey which juts forward a sehome for the erection of a new chapel and eloisters on the Chapter House site, which would cost £150,000.

on the to

Views on the Report. Some interesting views proposal to make additions Westminster Ablieg have lien oh- tained by the Press Association, Here are some others:

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald:-1 or even 1280,000, and states: -- think they are wise in rejecting We share the conviction ex-the idea of a separate building pressed by the sub-commission apart from Westminster, and the have to be that if the Abbey gt-centinue only questions that

are: Shall the Abbey to be, as it has been for ernaries, settled.

be closed considered the place wherein the nation be treasures the memory of is most against further monuments and illustcions dead, some solution of memorials? If there is a desire The problem of providing aveam-that the practice of placing mong inolation, whether by additional ments there to people whom the buildings or otherwise, for fu-nation desire to honour is to be accommoda- dere memories musi bo found ontinued how

tion best he provided? 1 think to withet delay.

that the country old wish

the answer the red question in

£ affirmantive and if that is so think the Committee has stated. the alternativea,

"Hall of Fame" iden.

to have no

Tre menthers of the subseron mission are aanimosiy yo oplain that a suption to this problem cannot be lour deferred,

The feeling of the country Dae aspect of the prolden, it is true, is a longer gegeht. With would probably be regard to burials the Den au chamo at all, as it almost im Chapter have already derided that possibls to toch those historical inly the ashes after er mation coildings without spoiling them---- veticaforth be deposited henrath however much in keeping with the floors of the Aldboy..

their plans and spirit the addi- tians may he. We have, however, to, fare practical problem, and The present Dean of Westmins- think there in ough re- Ferias ijitormed the sub-cemmined and good tasty about Big even for memorito enable us to do it successfully. Mr. Wiliam Reynolds-Stephens, -tablets there are today only a few square feet available in a dark president of the Royal Society of corner on the west wall south of British Sculptors: The propusti for making changes forecs one to the west door of the nave

remember the damage done to tome of our cathedrals and many hardbes by the so-called restora; tins made by the architects of early Victoriaa times who

The report further says: Seither of these small places, can be regarded as despute for the commemoration of great men, and there are no alhers.

Points from the preliminary conclusions of the sub-commission are as under:

no doubt had big regatations then. if the two shemes for adding to Westminster Abbey-of which the merest outline is given in the

No monument or alher memorin) Commissions report that for a should be erected until at least me or bras detached building. 14 pears have elapred after the fan ambulatory near the chapter deaths of the person whota Pishauze, seems to have least abjee-

tion. Heine i só conna morale,

Asked if he and any ceam-t No further spare within the

Ber- Abbey itself is now avgdlable, orto nike on the propised extension can be made available, for murare for Westminster Abbey, Mr.

nard Shaw Baid' Lo-day: "I have has to say. I am still alive. as ant ready for it yet."

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13,

1927.

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