“…an ancient and beautiful church fulfils its primary function merely by existing…whether standing alone in the countryside or surrounded by wharves and warehouses, [it] is a perpetual reminder of spiritual values. In Shakespeare’s phrase, such churches are “sermons in stones”, and their message is delivered, not for half an hour on Sundays, but for every hour of every day of every year, and not merely to those who enter, but to all those who pass by.”
Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, founder of the Friends, speaking in 1957. (Left: Llantrisant church on Anglesey, our first Welsh vesting)