 The Church of St Matthew's (1878–79) in Cheltenham, thought by David Verey to be "admirable and handsome", is built in rugged white stone with ashlar dressings, while at All Saints, Viney Hill (1867), also in Gloucestershire, the church is appropriately built in the local sandstone.Like these, St Mark's Church (1869–72) in Leicester uses different materials.St Mark's is unusually faced in dark purple-grey slate from the quarries of the donor, William Perry Herrick (1794–1876), in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire (Herrick's home, Beaumanor Hall near Loughborough, was built in 1845–47 in a Jacobethan style by William Railton (c.1801–77), who was Christian's predecessor as Architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1838–48).