"A real revelation and a genuine pleasure to read. The editor has assembled an expert cast of contributors who, between them, brilliantly tell the story of how changing tastes in art, education, and religion played out at All Souls, superbly illustrated in a slew of colour pictures. . . . It is, all told, a triumph."

Church Times

". . . A beautifully produced book with outstanding contributions and a series of authoritative and readable essays, supported by excellent illustrations, all focused on a magnificent object."

The Burlington Magazine

"Chronicling its chequered history in exhaustive detail, it throws a revealing light not only on the art and architecture of late medieval England, but also on the vicissitudes wrought by later generations and on the subsequent culture of restoration that has given us the chapel that we see today." 

Ecclesiology Today

"This beautifully written and sumptuously illustrated volume is a delight... This book demonstrates, using many different scholarly approaches, exactly how the history of the reredos of the chapel of All Souls College reflects the history of worship from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century."

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