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* Literature/TheBible: Gets its share of InUniverse reference, unsurprisingly.



* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted. It’s trad, orthodox Anglo-Catholic here.



* CoolOldGuy: Fr Gascelyn Levett. And the Dean as well.
* DeadpanSnarker: Even in a preface to a collection of sermons, the Duke gets his shots in.
* EnsembleCast: The parishes in toto.
* FictionalDocument: The prefaces and the sermons alike.

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* GoodIsNotDumb: In fact, Good Is Both Erudite and Approachable.
* GoodIsNotSoft: When the padres urge repentance … listen.
* GoodShepherd: The Canon Rector and all three curates.

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* HiddenDepths: These are not men to presume upon, patronize, or underestimate.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: As the Duke notes in his preface.
* OfficerAndAGentleman: Fr Bohun … or, in full, the Rev’d Sir Gilbert Bohun Bt MC, late [[MajorlyAwesome Major]], the Blues and Royals.

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* SaintlyChurch: In these parishes, at least.

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* TitleDrop: Lampshaded by the Duke, as above.

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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: As you might expect of highly educated characters, many of them {{Oxbridge}} sorts – SmartPeopleKnowLatin, after all –, there is some (and some Hebrew, as well); but Frs Bohun and Gascelyn Levett lampshade the fact that most people nowadays don’t know Latin, even in the Universities.

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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: As you might expect of highly educated characters, many of them {{Oxbridge}} UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} sorts – SmartPeopleKnowLatin, after all –, there is some (and some Hebrew, as well); but Frs Bohun and Gascelyn Levett lampshade the fact that most people nowadays don’t know Latin, even in the Universities.



* {{Oxbridge}}: Canon Paddick and Fr Campion, Keble, Oxon; Fr Bohun, Jesus, Oxon, and [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Sandhurst]]; and Fr Gascelyn Levett, Selwyn, Emmanuel, Clare (Cantab), Fellow of Clare College Cantab.

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[[caption-width-right:350:...hear, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest...]]

British novel published in 2018 by [[Creator/GMWWemyss GMW Wemyss]]: the fifth in the [[Literature/VillageTales Village Tales]] series, following on from 2016's ''Literature/YeLittleHillsLikeLambs'', in lieu of the much-delayed (''Literature/OrdinaryTime''), now due in 2019.

This slim volume collects the [[FictionalDocument sermons and homilies]] of the series’ C of E clergy for the Woolfonts and Downlands parishes, some of them from past books and some as yet unpublished and yet to come, both for Occasional Services (christenings, solemnizations of matrimony, and burials of the dead) and for many of the feasts and fasts of the Church Kalendar. It includes [[GoodShepherd the saintly Canon Paddick]]’s famous “Northern {{Soul}}” sermon (on Ruth) and “An Army With Banners” sermon (defending the Church of England); the professorial Fr Gascelyn Levett on S John the Evangelist at the Latin Gate; young Fr Campion on S Aldhelm as an “ecclesiastical Ken Dodd;” and [[MajorlyAwesome Fr Bohun]] on the military virtues of discipline, training, and sacrifice.

It is prefaced with [[FictionalDocument introductory remarks]] by the author as InUniverse parish historian (in which the RealLife delay in publishing ''Literature/OrdinaryTime'' is explained); the Duchess; the Duke, who in quoting [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare “Willie the Shake”]]: “tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in every thing”: observes that the local geology is chalk, thereby [[IncrediblyLamePun carving out]] (sorry) the [[AC:Title Drop]]; the Bishop, being conscientiously broad-minded; the subtly reluctant Archdeacon; and the gleefully approving Rural Dean.

The character sheet for the series, [[Characters/VillageTalesTheClergy clergy]] included, is [[Characters/VillageTales here]].

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!! The tropes common to the series are being listed on that page. Additionally, ''Sermons In Chalk'' provides especially notable or specific examples of:

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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Well, that’s funerals for you....
* AltumVidetur / GratuitousGreek: As you might expect of highly educated characters, many of them {{Oxbridge}} sorts – SmartPeopleKnowLatin, after all –, there is some (and some Hebrew, as well); but Frs Bohun and Gascelyn Levett lampshade the fact that most people nowadays don’t know Latin, even in the Universities.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: The clergy, though High Church, are not above the occasional Scriptural allusion in passing, or quoting an apposite point from the ''Book of Common Prayer.''
* BadassPreacher: Canon Paddick, as he grows in years and Grace, gets more politely badass by the day. And Fr Bohun (that humble late-entry curate who gave up a fortune to serve the Church but remains a baronet, a holder of the Military Cross, and a retired [[MajorlyAwesome Major]] of Household Cavalry) brings calls to repentance which no one who isn't a fool disregards.
* Literature/TheBible: Gets its share of InUniverse reference, unsurprisingly.
* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Christenings on occasion follow hard on the heels of burial services.
* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Averted. Only two of the services are outside the District, and those are in [[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands Wolvo]] and in rural [[UsefulNotes/FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Cheshire]].
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted. It’s trad, orthodox Anglo-Catholic here.
* CloseKnitCommunity: And never more so than on Christmas and Easter and at baptisms, weddings, and funerals.
* CoolOldGuy: Fr Gascelyn Levett. And the Dean as well.
* DeadpanSnarker: Even in a preface to a collection of sermons, the Duke gets his shots in.
* EnsembleCast: The parishes in toto.
* FictionalDocument: The prefaces and the sermons alike.
* TheFourLoves: ''The'' primary element in the narrativium, as ever, and name-checked in one of Canon Noel Paddick’s sermons.
* GoodIsNotDumb: In fact, Good Is Both Erudite and Approachable.
* GoodIsNotSoft: When the padres urge repentance … listen.
* GoodShepherd: The Canon Rector and all three curates.
* HiddenDepths: These are not men to presume upon, patronize, or underestimate.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: As the Duke notes in his preface.
* OfficerAndAGentleman: Fr Bohun … or, in full, the Rev’d Sir Gilbert Bohun Bt MC, late [[MajorlyAwesome Major]], the Blues and Royals.
* {{Oxbridge}}: Canon Paddick and Fr Campion, Keble, Oxon; Fr Bohun, Jesus, Oxon, and [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Sandhurst]]; and Fr Gascelyn Levett, Selwyn, Emmanuel, Clare (Cantab), Fellow of Clare College Cantab.
* ParentalSubstitute: The Rector and his curates are fathers in God, ''ex officio,'' to everyone, the Duke included; and the Rector is Special Guardian to his little niece.
* SaintlyChurch: In these parishes, at least.
* SexyPriest: At the very least the Rector, a young widower often described by others as "Becks in a biretta" (and, for that matter, "Captain Carrot in a cassock"), and the senior curate Fr Campion, sometimes called "a young Jonny Wilkinson in a dog-collar", qualify. Or over-qualify.
* TitleDrop: Lampshaded by the Duke, as above.
* TheVicar: Strenuously averted and subverted. The Canon Rector and Fr Campion are GoodShepherd [[SexyPriest Sexy Priests]] ("Becks in a biretta" and "a young Jonny Wilkinson in a cassock", respectively), and inclined to demonstrate that GoodIsNotSoft and GoodIsNotDumb. Fr Bohun is a RetiredBadass with a Military Cross to his name; a baronet; and a long-time Home Missionary living in deliberate poverty: RealMenLoveJesus; Fr Harry Gascelyn Levett is a Cambridge Fellow, a newly-retired professor, a member of numerous learned bodies, and the primary expert on church architecture in Britain.
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