Did You Know...? - Barking Mad

Father Denham of Warleggan in Cornwall positively hated people. He surrounded the rectory with a high, barbed-wire fence and further alienated his flock by painting the church red and blue. When parishoners stopped attending his services, he replaced them with cardboard cutouts and continued to preach to those each week. He led a spartan life. There was no furniture in the rectory and, right up until his death in 1953, his diet consisted of just nettles and porridge.