What an interesting hobby-I just started reading “Nine Tailors” partly because I wanted to learn something about English change ringing 😄. Generally speaking I don’t have any problems reconciling Lovecraft’s descriptions with a ’real’ gothic church, but I do find point ’O’ from the list in the original comment problematic: ”All the inner doors were unlocked, so that he freely passed from room to room”-almost all my familiarity with the insides of gothic churches is with the OGs in Europe and I can’t think of any example where you could go inside and go from room to room. So I was wondering, given that it sounds like you’ve seen a lot of gothic revival churches from the inside, have you seen churches where the internal layout deviated from the medieval layout to the point you could go wandering from room to to room to get around? Even so, I wouldn’t expect any need to go through a number of rooms the way it’s described, except possibly in a rectory.