By standing at the north and south points of the church, where the roof meets the ground, the scale and design of the building are apparent. In the 20th century there was a development of the parish communion and the parish meeting, and a degree of baptismal reform. This led to the idea that church design should be based around these new theologies. The ‘New Churches Research Group,’ founded in 1957, was central to the movement towards a change in church architecture. They believed that traditional church designs distanced the congregation from the priest and the sanctuary. The secretary of the New Churches Research Group was Canon Peter Hammond, whose book ‘Liturgy and Architecture’ was published in 1960. Hammond felt very strongly that modem churches should be designed with a balance of traditional worship and modem theology.