The Archbishop of York’s Grade 1-listed palace at Bishopthorpe includes the ruins of his manorial church. Years of neglect had reduced it to its Saxon foundations and a crumbling West Front by the Georgian architect Thomas Atkinson, who worked for Archbishop Drummond in the 1760s.

Drummond is buried in these ruins. His architect died a bankrupt and lies in a pauper’s grave somewhere in York. In life they worked together to remodel Bishopthorpe Palace in the Gothick Style in friendly rivalry with Horace Walpole who was designing similar alterations to his own mansion at Strawberry Hill at the same time.

These two wealthy aesthetes, Drummond and Walpole, corresponded about their new ‘Anglican’ style of architecture as spiritual antidote for the prevailing Roman, or even, God forbid, ‘pagan’ Neo-classicism of their day.