As a prison chaplain, Fr Patrick Cope understands what it is like to be behind bars. But he now knows what it feels like to be locked in not a prison but a convent. Fr Cope, an adviser to the prison chaplaincy headquarters at the Ministry of Justice, is also the resident chaplain of the Tyburn Convent, on Bayswater Road, central London, and recently found himself locked in the kitchen of his first-floor flat. Caught without his mobile phone, he realised the kitchen was situated too far from the nuns’ quarters for his shouts to be heard. Eventually, he opened the window and called out to passers-by, “Please ring the bell of the house next door and tell the nuns that Fr Patrick is locked in the kitchen.” Once he had been rescued, Tyburn’s prioress, Mother Matthias, t