But the church built against it is something quite singular. The narrow graveyard accentuates the sheerness of the walls, a long, tall, narrow nave and chancel in one that is pretty much as it was when rebuilt, on the eve of the Black Death. By the later decades of the fourteenth century we stopped building churches like this, and the colder rationalism of Perpendicular would take over from the mystery of Decorated. All Saints captures the moment before this happens beautifully. What would have happened if the Black Death hadn't arrived? European architecture fragments at this moment, and probably Christianity would not have become such a serious business. Something of the joy goes out of European culture in the middle years of the fourteenth century.