Chapter 2

A journey back to hell

The Reverend Canon Percy George Banks MA, DD (Hibernia) was worried; more than he had ever been. The meeting at Lambeth Palace had been a disaster; so bad, in fact, that he cancelled his room at The Athenaeum for the evening of 29 September and determined to return home forthwith. The Archbishop of Canterbury had not been persuaded that Hartley’s case for Cathedral status was strong enough to take further at this stage. How could Tait not see the advantages of Hartley over Halifax and Wakefield? Or had Eboracum put him up to it? The Archbishop of York had been prejudiced against Hartley Parish Church ever since that prestigious party of American organists had visited. Banks smiled as he remembered how their leader, Hiram H...

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