From the Middle Ages to the present day, parsonages--vicarages, rectories, and later manses, presbyteries, and chapel houses--have been among the most significant dwellings in every kind of British community. Their roles have been wide and varied. Architecturally important, and ranging from medieval vernacular buildings to the bespoke house designs of leading architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the more modest homes of today's clergy, parsonages are important not only as buildings but for the part they--and their occupants--have played in the life of local communities,...