First I want to set a scene — scene of some few years ago now, and I am going to do it by reading to you a letter which I wrote, signed also by Keith Murray who was later to become my partner, and which was published in the letters columns of the Architects’ Journal for 11 April 1957. It concerned a critical article — I think it was about the third that the AJ had ever embarked upon, a new venture — by that stalwart apologist of the Modern Movement, J. M. Richards. The subject of the article was a new Roman Catholic church, and J. M. R., scrupulously adhering to Modernism’s principal tenet, had first set out the function of a church, defining it as the creation of an atmosphere of ‘dignity and repose’.