New and Old

I have recently been looking at the architectural style of some of the Victorian methodist chapels around the edge of Dartmoor. Much more recent is the Church of the Ascension, which is a Grade II listed Church of England church in the suburb of Crownhill in Plymouth, Devon. It was designed by the architect Robert Potter and consecrated in 1958. The church has been praised by English Heritage, Nikolaus Pevsner in his ‘Buildings of Devon’, and lauded as ‘Beautifully detailed ... one of the most satisfactory buildings for liturgy to be completed in this country since the war’ by Peter Hammond in his survey of 20th century church building ‘Liturgy and Architecture’. The picture is not great as it was taken in the rain today, on my old compact camera. The grainy texture and choice of B&W does though perhaps give it the appearance of a photograph that might have been taken around the time the church was built.