In the secular postwar years when congregations were diminishing, both the Roman Catholic and Anglican confessions built numerous new churches. Some -like the most famous of them, Coventry Cathedral - replaced buildings lost to bombs. Many, however, were devised to accommodate the liturgical demands of Vatican II. The very idea of what sort of building a church should be was called into question. An architectural free for all ensued: churches like fossils, churches like fruit machines, churches like marquees. (30 min Further Abroad 1997)