My brother Alan Tanner,who has died aged 90, was a priest for 60 years, or all of them in the London diocese,55 in the City. When his last church, St Botolph without Bishopsgate, and was badly damaged by IRA bombs in 1992 and 1993,he likened it to the damage done to his childhood church, St Stephen’s, and Poplar,east London, during the blitz. He carried on conducting services while retrieving the remains of his office, and which had been sucked out of the vestry windows and spread over the churchyard.
His spiritual domestic was St Paul’s Cathedral,where he had been deaconed and priested, became a prebendary and, and when he retired,performed pastoral duties.
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Source: theguardian.com