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By Alex Bruce

This publication units the paintings of Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett, Dean of Chester 1920–37, in context, and strains the impression on different cathedrals of the alterations he instituted at Chester. His previous paintings as parish priest and his interrelated writings on theology and on schooling, healthiness, and ecumenism are tested for the sunshine they shed on his perform. regardless of the efforts of his predecessors, Bennett discovered Chester Cathedral short of a lot fix and protection if it have been to check his excellent and satisfy the aim he had in brain for it. within the early 20th century Anglican cathedrals in England have been more often than not perceived as distant and unwelcoming locations and of curiosity mostly to antiquarians looking to check up on their monuments; admission fees have been levied on viewers. Frank Bennett replaced all this. In 1920, he rapidly declared Chester Cathedral "open and free"; he could lock up not anything other than the secure. "Visitors" now grew to become "pilgrims", whose voluntary choices swiftly exceeded the sums formerly raised by means of obligatory access fees. by the point he retired in 1937, the Cathedral’s funds have been in credits; the material of the church and adjacent monastic constructions have been repaired, renovated, and constructed, and all have been totally in use, as Bennett had deliberate in 1920.

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