KEEPING THE FAITH.

The Church commissioners oversee a fund of £9.2bn, and the primary aim of that is to support parish clergy. FEATURES PARISH CHURCHES Out for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside recently, I visited one of my favourite churches, a beautiful space with medieval wall paintings and carved columns full of fantastical animals conjured up by a stonemason's imagination many centuries ago. Church attendance has been definitively in decline for a century and, according to recent surveys, if the decrease in attendance continues at the present rate, the Church will be largely dead by 2033. [Extracted from the article]