For subscribers
All in good fun: Clowning around in London church
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
Clowns at a service honouring Joseph Grimaldi at All Saints Church in London. Clowns wore their Sunday best to service in its early years, but switched to their clown outfits in the 1960s.
PHOTO: SAM BUSH/NYTIMES
Alex Marshall
LONDON – The pews were full at All Saints Church in north-east London on Feb 1 as the parishioners bowed their heads in prayer, sang hymns enthusiastically and listened raptly to a Bible reading.
It could have been any church service except for one thing: Many in the audience were clowns.
