SIR,—Please let me underline everything R. B. Salt and John
Redfern write of Coventry Cathedral in last week's Spectator.
I visited the Cathedral in company with a grand- daughter aged seventeen and her mother: three generations, each capable of registering individual impressions and intelligent enough to interpret them. We were in complete agreement in our understand- ing of its inspiration, its message and its achieve- ment, In other words; the modern, the religious, the artistically beautiful. To me at my age (born and reared to admire the beauty and reverence expressed in such buildings of another age, in many different countries) my visit was a joyful revelation of what my descendants can expect to inherit in the New Age; an age in which much else that seems to be paramount may cause grandparents some misgiving. In this sense surely Coventry Cathedral is symbolic of a message (and a lesson) for those who have been privileged to survive until this day.
I would say to those of my generation : Go to Coventry with an open mind and find out for your- selves what its religious message is.
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