More than a quarter of churches in Cornwall are failing to offer a Sunday service, analysis by The Telegraph has revealed.
Across 287 churches in the county, 78 had no forms of Sunday worship advertised on the last weekend of September – a total of 27 per cent.
Of those that did, just 114 advertised that Communion was being offered, considered by many Christians to be the most important sacrament.
Responding to the data, the Rev Marcus Walker, chairman of the campaign group, Save The Parish, said: “It can come as no shock to anybody that if you reduce the number of priests, you reduce the number of services; if you reduce the number of services you reduce the number of people going to church.
“The Church of England has hundreds of millions of pounds to throw at pet causes. Now is the time to put that money back where it was supposed to be spent: parish ministry.”
I think the final comment about rotation of services being long-established is a fair onehttps://t.co/SgjM7cKRpJ
— Madeleine Davies (@MadsDavies) September 25, 2023