I HAVE heard, only recently, of plans for a possible merger of Windsor Road United Reformed Church and Porthkerry Road Methodist Church at a new Waterfront church.

Mr concern is with the eventual pulling down of Windsor Road United Reformed Church, should this come to pass.

I write as the niece of the late, Baden Powell; who, with his wife, Margaret, was a former hard working member of the church.

Deryn Grigg (nee Tresize), expressed her views on the subject in your newspaper on February 28, and I endorse her sentiments, heartily.

So much "vandalism" (because that is what it amounts to!) of local churches has occurred, already:

Bethel, Court Road - carpet factory; Bryn Sion - charity office; Bethesda, High Street - hyper market; Penuel, High Street - martial arts; Holton Road, Baptist Church - Superdrug Fine workmanship has been destroyed, and some good pipe organs have been thrown onto the scrapheap.

My husband and I experienced the terrible loss of our place of worship in the sad demise of Holton Road Baptist Church in the '80s - and would not wish that on anyone else.

Surely, we all hold in trust that which has been placed in our care by previous generations, who saw that we were brought up in the faith.

Their presence, and the prayers they offered, have created the atmosphere for our worship - when we share the same home. No new building can provide that precious link.

Once the building has gone - the witness is no longer there.

The church building opened in 1904. This cannot be the way to mark that centenary.

Please, please think again!

Jean Price (nee Powell) Town House, Dunblane, Perthshire