Madam, - Further to Ignatius Fennessy's letter of January 12th, I would like to point out that you do not have to go to France to find the biblical quotation referred to over the door of a church. The early 18th-century doorway inserted into the medieval tower of the old Church of Ireland church at Crumlin, Co Dublin, has this quotation on a plaque:
"How dreadful is this place; none other is the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven." - Yours, et.,
CONLETH MANNING, President, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin 2.