St Edmundsbury Cathedral. The walls of the nave are C15, but most of today's cathedral dates to 1959-1970, and the tower was added in 2000-2005. One of the masterpieces of English Gothic, created in our time.

The architect of the 1959-60 work, Stephen Dykes Bower, bequeathed everything he had to help fund the completion of the church, which was led by Warwick Pethers.

Dykes Bower's work displays an immense attention to detail, with exquisite metalwork, light fittings and masonry.

He is also had a remarkable feeling for colour and pattern, so that one finds in St Edmundsbury something of the surface richness that Medieval church architecture would have had in the Middle Ages.

Though St Edmundsbury easily surpasses virtually all traditional buildings of the postwar era, it is curiously little known. It is very well worth a visit.

Not least, of course, because Bury St Edmunds has a great deal more excellent architecture and urbanism...