Not Dead Yet: How two Anglican churches came back to life
The statistics tell us that St Peter’s Brighton and St Swithun’s Bournemouth should be carpet warehouses or gastropubs by now. Justin Brierley finds out why they are welcoming hundreds of parishioners through their doors again
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