26 APRIL 2008, Page 25

Missing steeple

Sir: Alex James writes (Slow Life, 19 April) of the joys of orbiting the spire of Canterbury Cathedral, ‘the static needle of the steeple pointing quietly up’. In my years as chaplain of the King’s School Canterbury, I took many pupils to the top of the tower of the Cathedral. They would have looked in vain for a spire or steeple. Has Alex James perhaps mistaken Rochester for Canterbury? Father John Thackray

Senior Chaplain, King’s School, Rochester, Kent