I was slightly early for a meeting about the restoration of St. Anne’s, thinking it might be open. But it’s open now from Thursday to Sunday. So, instead, I sat in the churchyard where Iain Sinclair probably sat when he was composing Lud Heat, his poetic evocation of the churchyard’s ghosts which is said to have inspired Peter Ackroyd’s novel about Hawksmoor.

I was able to contemplate the magnificence of its nave:-

The detail of the west tower:-

And the surrounding tombs and vegetation:-