It has taken me a while to get around to this 2015 Alcuin Club Collection.
As a study in that mid twentieth century shift in the role and status of Cathedrals within the Church of England it provides useful insights. Engagement with those beyond the Church via the medium of performance and pageantry of the liturgy is deeply out of fashion within the Church today – but there is, in my mind, little real evidence that it would be any less effective today as it was under Dean Dwelly.
But this is also an over long fan letter to Dwelly and despite Peter Kennerley repeatedly referring to a lack of space to go into detail on this or that matter it is a somewhat flabby text and a firm editorial hand could have been a benefit.
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