Heritage Open Day: All Saints in Weston-super-Mare is the product of a nation’s re-awakened interest in pre-Reformation church architecture and sacramental devotion. During the mid-19th century a small number of Oxford dons and Cambridge undergraduates lit a fire in the belly of the drab national church which came to have the most profound effect upon architecture and patterns of worship throughout the world-wide Anglican communion.
Vitality poured forth from the Oxford Movement and the Cambridge Camden Society. Scholarly research into the principles of Gothic architecture and pre-Reformation English worship became a passion, and as with all passions some devotees went too far.