![]() There is a very real and gruesome possibility that the vicar will look down from the pulpit to see a glittering mosaic of rectangular lights in the gloom: the congregation will be ignoring the sermon, bent over their smartphones and tablets, checking their emails, updating their Facebook profiles and possibly getting stuck into Candy Crush Saga.īut what is more worrying is that the members of this modern community wouldn’t actually come into the church at all. What does Lord Lloyd-Webber envisage? A noticeboard with the hymn numbers and also the username and password? Or will vicars test parishioners on their sincerity before they are allowed these details – just as they might sternly quiz them on their religious beliefs before allowing their children into the local oversubscribed CofE school? They should go back to the medieval traditions, which is that the nave of the church was always used for local businesses.” Once you do that the church becomes the centre of the community again. ![]() “I want to get every church in the country on Wi-Fi. Worshipping the Wi-FiĪndrew Lloyd Webber has caused a tiny sensation with his pronouncement that churches should be fitted with wireless broadband. ![]() But it was released in 2001, before the ban. People smoke indoors in that, quite a bit. Compare that TV series with the film Julian Fellowes wrote, Gosford Park, the country-house drama which was the precursor and prototype for his Downton Abbey and also set in the early years of the 20th century. In Downton Abbey, you hardly ever see people smoking, except for those wicked below-stairs meanies O’Brien and Barrow in earlier episodes, who had the modern decency to do it outside. Since the 2007 ban on indoor smoking in public places, TV and film producers have started retrospectively imposing the no-smoking rule: reaching back decades into the past to pluck the cigarettes out of characters’ mouths, the packets out of their costumes’ pockets and generally sweep away the rotten habit.
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