Sir – P. Hornby (Letters, November 11) speculates as to why Oxford Fellows don’t attend their college chapels.
These chapels, and their way of worship (involving much beautiful music) were created in the days when dons couldn’t marry, had to subscribe to the status quo and lived on site. Since the third quarter of the 19th century, university teachers have been able to marry; that is how North Oxford came to be.
Many actually do go to places of worship, perhaps more family-friendly than the college chapels; indeed, Richard Dawkins’s own parish church, St Andrew’s, in Linton Road, is positively bristling with them.
Gillian Argyle, Oxford
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