Catherine and Sam Harding view the main crib scene, with themselves as Mary and Joseph. Photograph: Ash Mills For the Mary and Joseph of the Chichester Nativity, it has been less “no room at the inn” and more “no wedding in a pandemic”. Baby Jesus, meanwhile, far from having visitors from nearby fields and faraway kingdoms, hasn’t even been able to meet his aunt, his uncle or his great-grandparents. One of the shepherds is up to her eyes running the local food bank – and the winged angel looking down from above is the local hospital’s head of nursing.