The Cultural Legacy of the Royal Game of the Goose: 400 years of printed board games. By Adrian Seville. 245mm. Pp 384, many figs. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2019. isbn 9789462984974. €117 (hbk).

Anglican Worship, published in , and found expression in the innovative layout of St Paul’s, Bow Common, , by Robert Maguire and Keith Murray, where the use of a ciborium and corona defines the sacred space without being a barrier. Those churches that have retained their screen now tend to use them as a reredos, or backdrop to the nave altar, which relegates the chancel to being a weekday chapel or simply unused space. In the High Middle Ages the object that was most visible to the laity was not the high altar but the great rood, flanked by St Mary and St John, above the chancel screen. Changing liturgical fashions over the subsequent centuries (initiated by the Reformation) and what the writer Aymer Vallance, in his English Church Screens (), called ‘the incontinent lech for vistas’, something alien to the medieval mind, have gradually rendered the chancel screen obsolete to modern liturgical requirements, although in the process something vital has been lost. Peter Doll ends his piece with this appeal to those charged with the internal ordering of our churches: