Church denied permission to have baptistery.

@jshm2 Peter has not told us the type of baptistry: a pool or the far more common font.

Salisbury Cathedral has a modern font rather like a garden fountain, but I imagine it recycles the water and quite likely has a discreet filter and steriliser in the system.

@jshm2 The amount of water does not save you.
It’s a public profession of faith. Symbolic.

In one of my local Anglican churches they baptise in the sea, by immersion.

The early Christians , for the first five hundred years or so, were baptised as adults in baptistery, when they could.
As adults , often quite late in life.

@SunshineGirl Yes - they rely on making the reader too indignant to read the formal text properly.

@peterlee You implied, by mentioning Net Zero, that this was something to do with government policy, which is why I took an interest. It's not, it's a diocesan decision which has no standing in civil law. My reading of the case is that water conservation is no more than an obiter dicta (an incidental matter of interest raised by a hearing.)

I'm not a practising Christian, but I know from my Mum that using finite resources responsibly is an integral part of many peoples' faiths.

@SunshineGirl GB news being untruthful what a shock, trouble is thier viewing base believe anything they say