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All Hallows is by far the most interesting of the three churches which
Diocesan architect and renowned medieval historian Munro Cautley designed for
Suffolk. If Cautley's ghost will forgive me, it is the only
one which really matters. It is a building of national importance, outstanding of
its kind, but incredibly it is only now going through the process of being listed
by English Heritage.
Here is a building of great liveliness, much more so than his more prominent
and well-known St Augustine of Hippo nearby, built some 10 years earlier. There,
perhaps, Cautley was reacting against the unashamed Modernism of
Felixstowe St Andrew, a late 1920s church in the Evangelical tradition by Hilda
Mason and Raymond Erith.

But at All Hallows he went a step further, and produced what was perhaps
the last Art Deco church in England. It must already have seemed
old-fashioned, to be building in the late 1930s a perfect example of the Jazz Modern
 enthusiasm of the 1920s. Across town, Cachemaille Day was building St Thomas in
a cool, neo-Scandinavian style. The clouds of war were already gathering, and the
architecture which would follow the peace of 1945 would be quite different, a
eliberate rejection of what was seen as the ossifying conservativism of the likes
of Art Deco. How unfashionably decorative All Hallows must have seemed then!
(Information courtesy of Simon's suffolk churches website.)