My second excursion prompted by Open House was to St. Barnabas, Hackney which I had somehow overlooked in Nairn’s London – ‘the inside is the best church of its date in London’.  I am not sure that there are many churches of its date in London, just before the First World War, when Charles Reilly was already established as Professor of Architecture in Liverpool.  It’s a sort of stripped down, brick-and-concrete version of Torcello:-