It’s known as one of Britain’s most venerable cathedrals: the central site of England’s second-oldest diocese, the former seat of St John Fisher, the resting-place of St Paulinus. But Rochester Cathedral is having a startling makeover. The cathedal has built a nine-hole crazy golf course in the nave. It is funded by the Rochester Bridge Trust, and includes model bridges. Rachel Phillips, Canon for Mission and Growth, hoped visitors would “reflect on the bridges that need to be built in their own lives and in our world today”. The ordinariate priest Fr David Palmer, whose Anglican ordination took place in the cathedral, tweeted that the course was “an embarrassing shambles”.
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it’s known as one of britain’s most venerable cathedrals: the central site of england’s second-oldest diocese, the former seat of st john fi...
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