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“It was through looking at churches that I came to believe in the reason churches were built.”

John Betjeman

The Best of Betjeman, John Guest, Penguin Modern Classics, 1985. Written in 1948. (Blisland)

“No hope. And the X-ray photographs under his arm
Confirm the message. His wife stands timidly by.
The opposite brick-built house looks lofty and calm,
Its chimneys steady against the mackerel sky.”

John Betjeman

"Devonshire Street W.1" line 1, from A Few Late Chrysanthemums (1954).
Poetry

Hope , Housing

“Sing on, with hymns uproarious,
Ye humble and aloof,
Look up! and oh how glorious
He has restored the roof!”

John Betjeman

"Hymn", from Mount Zion (1931).
Poetry

Singing