"But surely, putting a church on top of Glastonbury Tor was an act of vandalism"

Well its true, all these places have been used for their own purposes by every age. But we've invented the concept of Conservation and are better than that now, surely?

And look at the quality of the main hijackers of heritage places that remain these days - book promoters, the Big Brother production company, Trinny & Susannah and probably most often of all the effing Countryside Alliance. Anything that involves that lot can't be right, can it?