A Passion for Churches
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A Passion for Churches is a 1974 BBC television documentary written and presented by the then Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman and produced and directed by Edward Mirzoeff. Commissioned as a follow-up
The film examines churches in the Diocese of Norwich.
The nave at Wymondham Abbey, featuring Ninian Comper's Victorian reredos, is admired by the poet in the film.
John Betjeman
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Sir John Betjeman was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and first president of The Hackney Soc
A Passion for Churches
…A Passion for Churches is a 1974 BBC television documentary written and presented by the then Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman and produced and directed by Edward Mirzoeff. Commissioned as a follow-up to the critically acclaimed 1973 documentary Metro-land, the film offers…
Betjeman in 1961
The John Betjeman Centre Memorabilia Room showing the office from his home in Trebetherick
Betjeman's house in Cloth Fair in the City of London, marked with a blue plaque (August 2007)
John Betjeman's gravestone by Simon Verity