Background
Taylor was born in London, where he attended Highgate School.
Taylor was born in London, where he attended Highgate School.
He took degrees in English at Street Catherine"s College, Oxford and law at the London School of Economics. His book How to Read a Church has sold over 100,000 copies and been translated into five languages. He is the writer and presenter of the six-part British Broadcasting Corporation Four series Churches: How to Read Them broadcast in September and October 2010.
Since 2014 he has been a guest presenter for British Broadcasting Corporation Songs of Praise presenting items on authors and churches including Chaucer, Shakespeare and Austen.
He has presented "Still ringing after all these years: a short history of bells" and "Pugin: God"s own architect" (2012) also on British Broadcasting Corporation 4. He is a Vice-President of the National Churches Trust.
He is a partner specialising in technology and intellectual property at law firm DLA Piper in Sheffield, and until 2012 was the Intellectual Property/Information Technology columnist for the Law Society Gazette.
