Until 1955, the setting of Walter Hussey’s life was buildings by Victorian masters: St Matthew’s, Northampton, built by Pearson’s pupil Matthew Holding; Marlborough College, with buildings by a series of Goths; Butterfield’s Keble; Street’s Cuddesdon; Scott’s St Mary Abbots, Kensington, and then St Matthew’s, Northampton, again, succeeding his father as vicar. But if this was the tradition in which he grew up, his achievement was to protest against its continuation inside the Church, when art outside employed a new idiom.