Cathedrals confront cash crises with endowment plan

by Ed Thornton

Posted: 20 Jul 2012 @ 09:07

PEERS and bishops urged the Government last month to provide an endowment of £50 million for cathedrals.

A debate on English cathedrals, moved by Lord Cormack, a Conservative peer and former General Synod member, took place in the House of Lords on 28 June. Opening the debate, Lord Cormack proposed that the £50 million be "provided as an endowment for the cathedrals of England over the next five years, with the money given to and channelled through ...

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