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St Agnes Birch-in-Rusholme with St John with St Cyprian Longsight
Church of England Diocese of Manchester
Pew Change August 2011

The pews are now back to their normal position but you can
read below what we did.

Questionnaires are available in church or by contacting us to let
us know what you thought of this year's layout.



What's happening?

  • For the four weeks of August we will change the normal
    layout of the pews in church for a trial period.


Why do we do this?

  • Twice previously we tried a different arrangement of the
    pews during the summer months as an experiment. After
    the 2006 and 2009 trial a number of comments were
    made (positive and negative) and many people asked if
    we could retry the pew change this summer.

  • The way a church building is furnished says a lot about
    how we understand worship and liturgy and how we
    understand our relationship with God. Over the years the
    Christian Church has developed a number of different
    church layouts. There is a danger that we become too
    comfortable in our physical environment that we do not
    think about what we are doing and why.

  • Changing the layout of the church affects the way we
    worship. With the pews in a different layout we will rethink
    what we are doing, why we are doing it and we will
    experience the Eucharist in a different way.

  • This is only a temporary change! We will change back to
    our usual layout in September.

What is the new layout?

  • The chosen layout this year sees the altar moved to the
    centre of the nave space. The pews will be arranged on
    six sides of the altar in groups of three.
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