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LIST OF FIGURES
                                                                          
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FIGURE 1  Increase in absolute and proportional amounts of diocesan

          expenditure required for clergy stipends and other clergy

          costs, over a seven-year period, 1972-78.                          3


FIGURE 2  Regular parochial and diocesan cash flows.                         8


FIGURE 3A Amount given per family per week.                                 19

FIGURE 3B Value given by level of giving per week.                          20


FIGURE 4  Parish of Thwaites Brow - a comparative analysis of

          income and expenditure relative to the church and church

          hall for the years 1965-1977.                                     39


FIGURE 5  Diocesan expenditure in 1976 to be spread over parishes.          86


FIGURE 6  Results of the Catton survey of other diocesan allocation

          systems.                                                          93