The Cathedral has been free in the past but introduced a fee to help with the upkeep of the building.
Now, it is returning to it’s old policy in a bid to welcome more people, an announcement which was made when the Archbishop of Canterbury visited on Saturday.
John Whitcombe, the Dean of Coventry told Premier: “We want to take down any barriers to people coming in and enjoying our extraordinary building and being caught up in the message that it represents.”
“We will be making the announcement just after our 12 o clock litany, which is a prayer we say every day about breaking down barriers between people and nation,
“So it’s going to be lovely to be able to say ‘and we are taking down this barrier to people being able to come in’”
John said that it feels wrong to have to pay: “I stood by our entrance and I’ve stood by the entrance of many cathedral up and down the country as people look at the charge and even if it quite a modest charge it’s just not in our national mind-set to pay to go into a build of this sort.”
“So I’m really confident that so many more people will come in both from the city and from across the country – people who’ve travelled across the world actually on the whole don’t mind paying”
Speaking of how they will make-up the loss in revenue, he said: “We have taken in a little bit short of £100,000 each year in the last few years since we have been charging people for entry so the first thing is…
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