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A 900-year-old church in East Yorkshire will have damaged carvings replaced with figures celebrating feminist and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) figures.
The woke restoration project of St Mary's Church in Beverley is being
spearheaded by Vicar Reverend Rebecca Lumley and has been approved by the Church of England.
The church, which dates back to the year 1120, is set to feature replacement carvings celebrating Polish-French physicist Marie Curie, British-Jamaican businesswoman Mary Seacole, airship engineer Hilda Lyon, aviator Amy Johnson, astronaut Helen Sharman, feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and Queen Elizabeth II.
Explaining her decision to focus on feminist and BAME icons, Vicar Reverend Rebecca Lumley
told the local
Hull Daily Mail: "The contribution of women to humanity isn't always properly recognised in the telling of history, and throughout history, women's voices have been silenced.
"We take seriously the Church's role in battling inequality and injustice. And so we hope that this project will help highlight the remarkable achievements of these women, and provide hope and inspiration for future generations."
Permission to go ahead with the controversial redesign of the church was granted by the chancellor of the local diocese, Canon Peter Collier QC, who said that the original carvings were so badly eroded that it was "impossible to tell what they were meant to be or whether there was any theme to them."
The original carvings in the church date back to 1520 when the central area of the church was rebuilt.
Comment: The churches' spinelessness and capitulation to Woke ideology is even more stunning than than that of churches under communism.