HC Deb 10 February 1873 vol 214 c199
MR. R. N. FOWLER

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention has been called to the omission of Church Service at the Chapel of the Embassy at Vienna; and whether, especially in view of the approaching Exhibition, arrangements will be made that in case of the illness of the Chaplain another clergyman should supply his place?

VISCOUNT ENFIELD

I am aware that on a few occasions, owing to the illness of the chaplain, there has not been Divine service at the British Embassy at Vienna, and it is not always easy to procure a substitute at very short notice. There is no regular chapel at the Embassy, and as the room in which service is performed, through the courtesy of the Ambassador, is only about 30 feet in length, I fear it may not accommodate as large a congregation as might wish to attend during the Exhibition. Sir Andrew Buchanan has suggested that an arrangement should be made with some Protestant Church in Vienna for English services being celebrated in it on Sundays by English clergymen.