It's hard to explain how it was to be brought up in that chapel and that home: often I say, laughingly, "I grew up in 1895", because it seems the best way of evoking the Bible readings and Beethoven, the Victorian hymns and the print of Pilgrim's Progress, and the sunday school seaside outings when we all sang grace before our sausage and chips in three-part harmony.
St Briavels was built as a hunting lodge for King John in 1205: explore it on a 45-minute guided tour, get into character with the help of the dressing-up box in the chapel or attend a medieval banquet.
Some stay up all night in the chapel praying.
Nearly 200 people, many from afar, attended the service, bundled up and shivering in the chapel, which has no heat.
To complicate matters still further, said Mr. Castro, in 1950 a history buff related to a family that bought the Carthusian Monastery in 1839 turned up a body in the chapel where Columbus had once been buried.
Some pieces ended up in the library and chapel of Forest School in Walthamstow, east London (an institution that previously had no link to the college).
Pews were smashed up and the chapel's walls were covered in septic graffiti.
The boy in the ape mask turns up in a chapel dedicated to St. Ambrose, patron saint of schoolchildren and pets, along with eight other identical gray-skinned bodies, raggedly dressed or nude.
The original entrance was covered up when the chapel was extended; it was only re-discovered when the chapel was refaced in Bath stone in 1869.
That was Friday, the day after St. Valentine's Day, the most popular wedding day in Las Vegas, and the couples were still lining up in the more than 50 chapels along the strip, as they would all weekend.
