The Pointed Arch has never previously found the need to abandon the safe shores of England in its search for suitable subject matter. However, the editor of this august magazine has been to the Holy Land on pilgrimage and has consequently ordained that an article on the major churches of the area should be written. Those of us who live “in his mild and magnificent eye” quail and obey. The Holy Land possesses innumerable churches, and even many of the more modern ones tend to be built on the remains of earlier Byzantine and Crusader sites. To cover more than a very few would be impossible.