during the first world war spencer had begun to conceive of a chapel of peace and love in which to display his works and these ideas developed further while working at burghclere. eventually he developed a complete scheme of domestic and religious spaces mixing his love of cookham with cycles of paintings illustrating sacred and profane love. the original lay-out of the church-house would have mirrored the geography of cookham with the nave based on the high street, while school lane and the path beside the thames would be the aisles. in one version, spencer envisaged the building would include bedrooms as chapels, fireplaces as altars and decorated bathrooms and lavatories while other versions of the scheme were more like an english parish church. as well as a chapel dedicated to carline, there would be a chapel dedicated to elise munday, the spencer family servant, and the subject of carline 's finest painting. spencer had at least two significant affairs during his life, one with daphne charlton while at leonard stanley, and the other with charlotte murray, a jungian analyst, when he was in glasgow, and there were to be chapels dedicated to both of them. although the structure was never built, spencer continually returned to the project throughout his life and continued to paint works for the building long after it had become clear it would never be constructed. his original scheme included three sequences of paintings, two of which "the marriage of cana" and "the baptism of christ" were completed. "the turkish windows",(1934), and "love among the nations",(1935), were designed as long friezes for the nave of the church-house.