§ 32. Sir M. CONWAYasked the Undersecretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether he is aware that Warwick Priory, a fine Elizabethan house with a later wing in the English Renaissance manner, is threatened with early demolition; and whether the Ancient Monuments Department of His Majesty's Office of Works is putting The 23 Ancient Monuments Act, 1913, into action with a view to preventing the loss of this building?
Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSONThe First Commissioner is aware that this building is threatened, but he very much regrets that, for financial reasons, he is unable to intervene under the Act. I may say that the First Commissioner is acutely conscious of the loss which the district would suffer by the destruction of this fine old mansion. He very much hopes that a local effort will be made to save it, and has appealed to the Mayor of Warwick to use his influence to this end.