Our cover illustrations in 2004 will aim, in pictures, to show the beauty and diversity of churches which go to make up our constituency.

We begin with a view of the screen and chancel of St Augustine Kilburn [Chancel 1872, nave 1877, spire and tower 1897-1898] The work of J.L. Pearson, the interior of St Augustine's, with its ambulatory set within the piers of the nave, is said to have been influenced by the Cathedrale de Sainte Cecile, Albi, Midi-Pyrenees. 

Says Basil Clarke [Church Builders of the Nineteenth Century']: The chancel suffers from an excess of ornamentation, and is less successful than many of Pearson's; he did better work when he had less money to spend'. That Clarke's is a tragic misjudgement is clear to anyone who has worshipped in St Augustine's.