Page Three model projected on Northampton church
The image was meant to publicise a strip poker night at the Northampton casino Religious leaders have hit out after an image of a semi-naked glamour model was projected on to the front of a church.
Aspers casino put the 30ft image on the tower of All Saints' Church in Northampton on Saturday night to publicise a strip poker event.
A Peterborough Diocese spokesman said the company had "defaced an iconic landmark and a place of religious worship with an inappropriate image".
Aspers said: "We did not mean to cause offence in any way at all."
'No decency'A casino spokesman added the projection "was purely meant in good spirit".
It was intended to advertise an "alternative Valentine's strip poker night" at the Northampton club.
The image featured model "Jasmine" who will be appearing at the event, the spokesman added.
The diocese spokesman said it was "disappointed that Aspers Casino has sought to use a church building for advertising a commercial event without offering payment and without even having the decency to seek permission first".
All Saints' Church is part of the Parish of All Saints with St Katharine and St Peter in the Church of England.
It is also Northampton's Civic Church and forms part of the Diocese of Peterborough.
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