When the Goodies press this temporary advantage by pretending to be Welsh, the Reverend declares that he can't kill fellow Welshmen, tells them that his church (revealed as "Welsh Druids") worships the game of rugby union, and invites the Goodies to join them.

The church is temporarily worshipping at 1400 1st Street, NW in Washington, DC while awaiting completion of their new building in Largo, MD.

This first novel takes place in about 20 years, when gangs rule the New York streets, the largest church worships Elvis Presley, and "ambients" (freaks born after a nuclear reactor exploded) are considered sages.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Lawshall is recorded as having "a church with 30 acres of free land", and probably long before that time people were worshipping on the site of the present church.

During Brown's pastorship, the church worshipped in a grove or orchard and in the houses of its members.

Today, the church has been restored and still worships every other Sunday.

That church today worships in a tiny, 1930's-era building.

And the luminously refurbished little church in the shape of an Ionic temple on the Rue Notre-Dame, now an antiques street, where Protestant wine merchants from England, Germany and the Netherlands worshiped.