joseph's-in-the-fields

Updated: August 3, 2026

This was definitely a meeting of Conspirators, and all of those engaged in it, with one exception, knew that that was so. Bentinck-Major knew it, and Foster and Ryle and Rogers. The exception was Martin, a young Minor Canon, who had the living of St. Joseph's-in-the-Fields, a slum parish in the lower part of the town. Martin had been invited because he was the best clergyman in Polchester.

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Cathedral