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Urlaub in St. Lambrecht
Urlaub in St. Lambrecht
Urlaub in St. Lambrecht
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens tthe lectern, William Bainbridge Reynolds first major commission and undoubtedly the most original of his works here. It is made of wrought iron and copper and consists of a base carrying a central shaft which bears a two-sided revolving reading desk flanked by sinous candle-arms of immense scale. The design is said to follow one of Pugin’s but it is more likely to be a conflation of two facing pages of Pugin’s Desigr s for Metalwork, one of which shows a lectern and the other designs for candle brackets for walls. Apart from the swagger of the design, which John Betjeman rather unkindly categorised as ‘Noveau Viking’, the lectern is a classic piece of true craftsmanship because the form and decoration are both dictated by the material. The copper and iron are treated in many different ways—beaten, pierced, repousse, twisted, embossed and incised— which would have been impossible to achieve with wood. That is the failure of the mass-produced lecterns which Gough derided—the carved goose which nearly went astray at the railway station could as well have been made of brass, wood or, at a pinch, stone. This lectern simply would not stand up in any material other than metal.
Incorporated within it, as within all Reynolds’ work in the church, is a rich vein of subtly expressed symbolism of the sort which might be expected from so brilliant a mind. Between the turrets of the base are the shields of the English provincial sees of Canterbury and York. On one end of the desk is the Fall of Man, expressed by the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, and at the other the Redemption of Man, shown in the Crucifixion with the Instruments of the Passion and the Crown of Thorns. Surmounting the desk is the figure of St. John the Baptist, the forerunner, and the sconces for candles which cast light on the Word are embellished with the attributes of the Lord foretold by Isaiah—‘Wonderful Counsellor, the Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace’.
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
St Cuthbert's Church, Philbeach Gardens
Church of St. Michael & All Angels, Ladbroke Grove; is used not just by the C of E
Church of St. Michael & All Angels, Ladbroke Grove; The Sermon on the Mount
Church of St. Michael & All Angels, Ladbroke Grove; stained glass window by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, nativity
