The clue lay in George Herbert's poem "The Windows" which was sung as an anthem at evensong.
When he remonstrated with the dealers, they smashed up his car and shot out 58 windows in his church.Yet West End is now as peaceful as evensong.
More a churchgoer than a Christian, he played the organ in his local parish church, St Peter's, Swettenham, for 40 years, and attended evensong.
Since the 4th century it has been used in such evening worship services as Compline, Vespers, and Evensong.
After that it's Evensong at 3.15 and that's it for the day, but with Boxing Day on a Sunday I'll be back for another three services.
"I wandered into St Mary's Cathedral and they were singing choral evensong, and I just wanted it.
The same sense of madness lurking just underneath the surface of the frustrated and ordinary pervades a production in which Christmas shopping becomes an escalating manic stylised scrimmage and where a supposedly romantic restaurant doubles as a den that makes the Kit Kat Klub look like Evensong.
Day Two Sunday morning: go to church Bristol's handsome cathedral (18) at College Green (0117 926 4879; bristol-cathedral.co.uk; daily 8am to evensong) is mostly Gothic in style but its highlight is the Norman chapter house, with walls covered by intricate, geometrical carvings.
More criticism ("a certain amount of noise") came in the wake of Wright's decision in February to switch the 80-year-old Choral Evensong from Wednesday to Sunday afternoons.
Every afternoon in England, between about three and six o'clock, candles are lit in the great cathedrals and abbeys and college chapels, and the antique rite known as Evensong is observed.
The visitor has stumbled upon a service, Evensong, whose roots stretch back at least to the tenth century, and whose liturgy has been in almost continuous use since 1549, the date of the first Book of Common Prayer, which was revised in 1552, and lightly amended in 1662, three hundred and fifty years ago.
