St Alban's Hindhead

An 8am mass doesn't give you much idea of how a church works, as they tend to be pretty similar across the board unless a church is bold enough to do the Book of Common Prayer as the Book of Common Prayer was intended to be done, and few are, or clergy choose choir dress rather than vestments. At St Alban's Hindhead they do maintain the latter, but it is no longer the four-star church it once was. A big Victorian barn of a building, St Alban's retains the signs and marks of Anglo-Catholicism in the form, as you can see, of a statue of the BVM, a hanging lamp, Stations of the Cross, and, somewhat confusingly, two aumbries, but that isn't how it thinks of itself any more: its driving force is evangelical but trying to bend itself around the traditions of the church. That's just my impression, others may express it differently (and, perhaps, better)!