[Magdalen] State of the parish

[Scott Knitter]

One of our fonts....don't know if it's the big main one in the narthex or a smaller one used as a holy water stoup....was rescued from the burning original church in the Great Fire. I think a chalice was saved, too. One story credits nuns for this, but the Sisters of St. Anne didn't arrive until 1922. The Great Fire was 1871' I think.

Scott, thinking of the parish council meeting in Dibley that turns into an argument over which was worse...the Great Storm, the Great Fire, the Great Snow, the Great Wind...

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> On Jan 20, 2015, at 10:14 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "And they built the new church right where that baptismal font landed...."
> 
> It's really very very cool to have not only something from that original
> structure, but something which has been through that disaster and came
> through it.