Saint Elric's Lantern

A combined beacon and chapel on the Dover shore: its lamp is kept because masters use it, its chapel because the coast has buried so many men whose families watched that light. Contributions are entered as oil, chapel money or widow relief depending on the book.

At the table

Has no jurisdiction or officer of rank but persists as an institution because pilots expect the light, the shore expects the chapel to answer when a body comes in, and widows expect the collection to be made unasked.