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Churches Along the Way

For the month before a choir place was settled, I visited the churches of each town I passed through — not only cathedrals but parish churches. Everywhere the doors stood open.

Last updated: 4 September 2026

  • The spire of St Mary's, Saffron Walden.
  • The flyer for a Festival of Choirs gala concert in this church: Faure's Requiem and Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs.
  • By the end of the concert night had fallen, and the tower was floodlit.
  • The quire, with its row of red-shaded lamps.
  • A rood hanging beneath the timber ceiling.
  • St Botolph's Church, Cambridge.
  • The altar, with its gilded reredos and stained glass.
  • Great St Mary's, the University Church in Cambridge.
  • The service, seen on the live-stream screen.
  • St Mary's, Warwick.
  • An altar set within white carved stone.
  • Holy Trinity, Coventry.
  • Here I sat in the congregation, and did not sing.
  • A Wednesday morning mass. The priest faced away from us — I had never seen that before.
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