A. C. Benson recalled: ‘My father arranged from ancient
sources a little service for Christmas Eve – nine carols and
nine tiny lessons, which were read by various officers of the
Church, beginning with a chorister, and ending, through
the different grades, with the Bishop’. The idea had come
from G. H. S. Walpole, later Bishop of Edinburgh. Almost
immediately other churches adapted the service for their own
use...it has been
broadcast annually, even during the Second World War, when
the ancient glass (and also all heat) had been removed from
the Chapel.
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