ABSTRACT
The High Church party associated with the names of Lancelot Andrewes, Richard Neile, William Laud, John Cosin and Matthew Wren desired that the practices of the Church should preserve many features of pre-Reformation worship that they deemed to be still acceptable, and even desirable. Cosin was a leading figure in the High Church movement, and at this time was a prebend at Durham Cathedral, as well as a royal chaplain. The new church was fashionably modern, a mixture of late gothic and Quattrocento Italian; it was richly furnished, with few of the distinguishing marks of the High Church party such as a screen and special attention to the chancel and altar. The High Church movement that gathered head in the 1620s and 1630s provoked antagonism from the Puritans and also from the moderates who were uneasy about the closeness between the practices of the new movement and those of Catholicism.
