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Pantheon

A Pantheon, as anyone with a smattering of the classics will know, is a temple to all the the Gods (Gk. All Gods). The best one is in Rome in the form of a huge rotunda with a central oculus. It is thus a suitable name for the the area where we offer our praises to those who inspire us

In the sort of touch that gladdens the heart of the Englishman, Pantheon is also the name given to the unique radiator grille of a Rolls Royce.

Sometimes it's not enough to have burr walnut on the dash and 75 layers of laquer handrubbed by the personal burnisher who's family have been buffing your family's coachwork since before William the Conqueror. Sometimes you just have to know that parts in the spares catalogue are named with obscure little classical jokes. It's the sort of thing that silently reaffirms that the people who designed it knew the sort of people who would be driving it.

It's things like this that explain why the English stopped really needing organised religion at around the time of Henry VIII.