3 MAY 1957, Page 12

CENTENARY The centenary of St. Johns Church, Montreux,' whose appeal

I see is being launched this week, makes me wish that the Church of England would publish a book illustrating Anglican churches in Europe and telling us the times and types of their services. We are shortly to see an illustrated volume of Anglican cathedrals in other parts of

the world. Some of them ere very fine. That of St. John .the Divine, New York, is the biggest cathedral in America, and St. Peter and St. Paul, Washington, is another fine Anglican cathedral. Butterfield, Pearson and Burges have built cathedrals in the Commonwealth, but there are parish churches, too, splendid buildings like Street's American church in Rome, which deserve illustration in a book which will give us architec- tural demonstration that the Anglican Com- munion is not confined to this island.