The church has closed in my home town due to lack

@SW-User it will become the new town hall. No kids being born in the township i guess. Everyone is older now. Younger folks getting work in the cities. School closed back in the sixties. Post office around 2000. It's the same all around rural Minnesota.

@Tastyfrzz Like England UK.

But a lot of our churches go back 800yrs, They are impossible to maintain.

Our Victorian ancestors used to just pull them down, even the Wren churches of 1670s in London, magnificent though they were.

@SW-User Went to an Indian restaurant in Dundee, Scotland (or was it Broughty Ferry?) many years ago while I was there on business. My Norwegian colleagues were rather surprised, and a little shocked I think, to find that it was in a church. We had to explain that there are hundreds (or thousands?) of redundant churches in the UK and that it would be a shame to pull down such a splendid building just because it was no longer needed for its original purpose.

@SW-User I once read an article in the New Yorker about a couple who bought a small rural estate in the English countryside. They were shocked when the local church sent them a bill for its roof repair. Apparently, there was a requirement dating back centuries that the local nobility (defined by whoever was living in that estate) was responsible for the church's upkeep.

@LeopoldBloom The solicitor who handled the purchase should have discovered that.

@ninalanyon According to the article, it was an obscure law on the level of not tying your horse up in front of the Post Office or not chewing tobacco on the Sabbath.

@LeopoldBloom Maybe so but that's what you are paying the solicitor (lawyer) who handles the conveyancing to discover.

@ninalanyon I don't remember how that worked. It wouldn't be the first time a lawyer missed something.

@SW-User I'm not even a Christian and I can't agree with doing that. Beautiful old buildings are worth preserving.