I have got interested in Edward Maufe, partly because I have fond memories of Guildford Cathedral.  So, I went to have a look at St. Thomas’, Hanwell whose foundation stone was laid in 1933, the year after Maufe had won the competition to design a new Cathedral at Guildford.  Nairn wrote that he was ‘a man with genuine spatial gifts but out of sympathy with the style of his time’.  But the truth is that this was very much the style of the time – an abstracted form of gothic with strong Scandinavian influences, bringing a stately form of Christianity to the outer suburbs:-