The visitor should be sure to walk round the church, as those who only come in from, and go back by, Duchy Road, miss much of interest. On the south side the massiveness of the church strikes one chiefly. To quote Mr. Goodhart-Rendel, P.R.I.B.A., "Moore spoke Gothic with a strong Yorkshire accent wherever he found himself, and at S. Wilfrid's he must have felt himself at home. Built on a moorland ridge that had been utterly defaced by horrible villadom, the church seems an outcrop of the noble rock beneath, a church rough-hewn by Nature before it was shaped by man."

The cloisters or loggia joining the hall at one end of the Verger's house, and at the other the vestries and church, give one the finest view of the buildings as a whole. Every thing "composes" beautifully, for the silhouette and pile of the church with its broken lines of roof and buttresses, merge wonderfully into the more modern hall.

The hall, especially its remarkable "Lamella" roof, was an experiment, but a great success. Panelled in limed oak, there can be few parish halls (which are not usually things of beauty), to beat it. Its stage, and behind it the Parish Room and kitchen, are of great value in the social side of the church's work.