9. Jacob Macdonald was vicar from 1836 until his death in 1871. He long remained a legend with his remarkable histrionic abilities in the three-decker pulpit shown in No. 8. Jacob Macdonald always preached in his black gown and changed into this in the Lady Chapel, then the vestry, where a convenient decanter of sherry stood ready to fortify him for his hour-long sermon. His dramatisations of some of the Old Testament stories were long remembered and many shrank from his accusing finger. He was the last of the old-time parsons.