Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — Churches in Queer Places. [ARTICLE]

Churches in Queer Places.

People at Tunbridge Wells, England, rarely say that It is impossible to be in two places at one time, because if they enter the beautiful old chapel of ease in their town they can stand in two counties and three parishes. This chapel stands partly in Kept and partly in Sussex. This is how the problem is worked out. When the ..clergyman leaves the vestry he comes out of the parish of Frant, |n Sussex. If he is going to officiate at the altar he walks into the parish of Tunbridge, in Kent. If, on the other hand, he is going to preach the sermon, he walks from the parish of Frant to the parish of Speldhurst on the way to the pulpit. In half a minute he can enter the tw r o counties and the three parishes named. The members of the congregation, however, have to content themselves by sitting in one county and one parish like ordinary folk.