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Tarping is a term referring to a commonAnglican practice of performing theablutions at the point indicated by the majority of Western rites, that is to say immediately after the distribution ofHoly Communion rather than after the service as was prescribed in the1662Book of Common Prayer. The term is derived from the initial letters of "Taking theAblutions at theRightPlace".
"The Bishop of Southwell in 1922 had refused as a Visitor to intervene over 'tarping'; ... Anglo-Catholic parishes, and even more, non-parochial chapels of religious orders, were a law unto themselves." - Alastair Mason,History of the Society of the Sacred Mission, Canterbury Press, 1993
