Where would you go?
I would go to Canterbury which is not very original, but I have my reasons. Where I live in south London is very close to the Pilgrims Way and my office is in some almshouses in Peckham called the Pilgrims’ Cloisters. I feel that Canterbury is so essential to the church in England – more than the Church
of England. In writing my biography of Pugin, God’s Architect, I rediscovered that sense of a very deep English kind of history. Rather controversially, Pugin always said “I’m not a Roman Catholic, I’m an English Catholic, like your Thomases and your Edwards.” There is, of course, the belief that the church in England has this apostolic history independent of Rome, and people believe it – even though the facts are against it.
