The remedy finally adopted was the present handsome church, which was completed in 1872.
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An open compass, closing on one altar
In 1872 it was finished. The district gazetteer sets the building down without ornament: “two converging naves which meet in a common chancel.” Auguste Jean saw it as an open compass, two arms splayed at the doors, drawing nearer down the length of the building, closing at last on one shared sanctuary. A German visitor put it more simply still: a double church, with one common high altar — in its way a masterpiece of architecture, he thought, bearing brilliant witness to the talent of “our Br Bergenthal”. Over it stand two octagonal towers of ninety-two feet, and inside, the vaults were painted in dyes drawn from plants and trees.
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The single best external anchor on the whole site: a British government gazetteer recording that "the present handsome church… was completed in 1872", and describing the plan as "two converging naves which meet in a common chancel". No parish source is needed for either.