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PAGE 28FRIDAY, 11 MAYThe ChurchThe church owes it origins to the Cambridge Camden Society (from 1845, theEcclesiological Society) founded in 1839 with the aim of reviving historically authenticAnglican worship through architecture. In 1841, the society announceda plan to build a ‘Model Church on a large and splendid scale’ which wouldembody important tenets of the Society:• It must be in the Gothic style of the late 13th and early 14th centuries• It must be honestly built of solid materials.• Its ornament should decorate its construction.• Its artist should be ‘a single, pious and laborious artist alone, ponderingdeeply over his duty to do his best for the service of God’s Holy Religion.• Above all the church must be built so that the ‘Rubricks and Canons of theChurch of England may be Consistently observed, and the Sacramentsrubrically and decently administered.The architect William Butterfield (1814-1900) was chosen to undertake the project.Butterfield designed nearly 100 churches and related buildings during hislong career, including the chapels of Balliol College and Keble College, Oxford,and built in a highly personal form of gothic revival. All Saints Margaret Streetremains his masterpiece.