come to what has been described as the country's most complete Victorian church." "'And it, indeed, represents the pinnacle of the Medieval revival.'" "Good heavens!" "All this technicolour." "But what immediately hits you in the face...is that." "This is the age of the Penny Post and the railway." "This church was built in the same decade that Darwin's Origin Of Species was published, and here you have a doom painting, an image of the last judgement, just like you would've seen in the Middle Ages." "It shows you how Victorians were regarding the Middle Ages as the perfect Christian era and wanting to take on board those aspects of medieval Christianity that they saw as most fruitful." "'There's no question that the Victorians were sincere in trying towords, scripture in English, the Lord's Prayer, the Creed." "You've got, in the 18th century, these box pews." "And all of it is so simple." "Morris's genius was to recognise that, in an ancient church like this, those layers upon layers of generation, of people giving of themselves into the church, is here to be valued and here to be preserved." "This place, more than almost anywhere I've visited, is radiant with history." "'And it was that history Morris feared could be lost forever 'as mass-produced materials were being used to restore England's medieval churches." "'His feelings came to a head in a famous encounter 'here at another St John the Baptist church, 'which was being restored by the Anglo-Catholic vicar, 'the Reverend William Cass.'" "Morris came to