教会堂建設協会による二重用途施設の建設について（その1）：19世紀半ばから20世紀初頭の状況

The Incorporated Church Building Society, established 1818, was initially unable to subsidize secular use buildings from the General Fund. However, in 1858 it implemented a Mission Building Fund, and began to construct hamlet chapels, school-churches, mission halls, and mission rooms. In the early years, there were some examples of dual-purpose buildings without a strict distinction between sacred and secular space, but a type of church on the upper floor and secular rooms on the lower floor emerged. However, the distinction between sacred and secular was not sufficient and a stage for secular use had not yet emerged.