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… of bells) and a lay-maintained nave alongside a chancel under clerical control. Interiors ranged from bare whitewashed spaces centred on pulpits and communion tables (in Reformed areas) to proliferations of gold-plaited saints’ statues, … and a state of charity among neighbours, while absences and excommunications signalled social exclusion. Restrictions of space, however, meant that not every individual attended all the time; what mattered was the presence of household heads, … the soundscape of worship in the English parish church, 1547-1642’, in W. J. Coster and A. Spicer (eds.), Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 104-123. ‘[Diary entry for 20 June 1758] I …
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