It’s many decades since I visited the Episcopalian Church of Old S Paul’s in Edinburgh … but my recollection is of learning that, before its Victorian rebuild, it was so constructed that the Priest and each worshipping family had a separate and independant room to occupy. The door was kept open so that they could hear … This was presumably so that, in some sort of way, they would be legally
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