Editing Verger (section)

== Cultural references ==
Perhaps the best-known portrait of an [[Anglican]] verger in fiction is in [[Somerset Maugham]]'s [[short story]] "The Verger". In British popular culture, the [[BBC]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Dad's Army]]'' featured a bumbling caricature of a verger named Maurice Yeatman, played by [[Edward Sinclair (actor)|Edward Sinclair]]. The sitcom ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]'', whose title character is among the [[Ordination of women in the Church of England|Church of England's first female vicars]], also featured a female verger, the dim-witted but well-intentioned Alice Tinker ([[Emma Chambers]]).