Jim Hellyer
all photos my own…
- On to St Mary Magdalen, Sheet. Still in Hampshire but only just Keen to see the remaining Comper work there. Alas it has been removed. disposed of around 10 years ago apparently- only this lonely pulpit by him remains
- The stalls and lectern by him have gone & been replaced by these nocomment
- Out in truly dreadful weather. Only day free this week though, & beggars can't be choosers First stop is All Saints, Steep on the Hampshire/Sussex border Glass by Sidney Meteyard in the north aisle (dated 1923)
- Ah Wolverhampton - a happy hunting ground for me here’s St Andrew, Whitmore Reans. A late Richard Twentyman effort (completed 1967). Piper/Reyntiens glass too
- Intact medieval reliquary at Llanerfyl, Powys. Now that’s a first for me
- Survived by being somehow hidden in a vestry wall, as I understand it. Designed like a miniature chapel, with one- and two-light windows and even (sort of) aisles
- North porch at Whalley, Lancs - built 1909 unusual door design - a timber lattice, imitating a portcullis, infilled with glass bullseyes
- The Sower by Claude Price 1950s stained glass at St Agnes, Moseley
- don’t come across him v often. He trained under Richard Stubington at Birmingham School of Art (I think)
- This slightly later one at Solihull also by him (CP monogram bottom-right)
- 13th century stiff-leaf capital reused as a font at Buttington, Powys Likely from nearby Strata Marcella Abbey, which was dissolved in 1536
- I’ve rarely seen anything like it - although something similar is going on with the font stem at Longdon, Staffs.
- Roman column bases being turned upside-down and used as fonts? Wroxeter & Shrewsbury abbey
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View full threadAnd what on earth is going on with this 12th century(?) font at Kenchester, Herefordshire? Looks like it’s been on a diet Possibly a reused Roman column. the village lies right next to the site of Magnis, which was a walled Roman town well that’s what Francis Bond posits anyway
- Medieval font fashioned from a single block of oak at Efenechtyd church
- details of former Granada cinema at Tooting, built 1931 interior decoration by Russian designer Theodore Komisarjevsky. A fantastical melange of gothic, romanesque, renaissance, baroque & whoknows - never been anywhere else quite like it paintings by compatriot Vladmir Polunin listed Grade I
- Nairn famously said “miss the Tower of London if you have to, but don't miss this” I took a tour with the late (& great) Elain Harwood in 2018. Really must go back
- Northwick Cinema, in the suburbs of Worcester. Opened November 1938 The work of interior designer John Alexander Think it was up for sale in 2024. Not sure what it is now?
- Curzon Cinema in Mayfair with its fibreglass murals by William Mitchell (installed 1966)
