DOI issue:
Nr. 242 (April, 1917)
DOI article:Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43464#0147
Studio- Talk
PANELS (CARVED, PAINTED, AND GILDED) FORMING PART OF A
LADY JANE GREY IN ALL SAINTS* CHURCH, NEWTOWN, LINFORD
SCHEME OF WOODWORK IN MEMORY OF
(EVERARD, SON AND PICK, ARCHITECTS).
BY JOSEPH ARMITAGE
example of the manner in which an unpretend-
ing subject can be dignified by sound crafts-
manship and artistic resource. The artist’s
quietly confident draughtsmanship and agree-
able management of subdued yet effective
colour give significance to a piece of work
which in less able hands might easily have
become trivial.
Last July we gave some illustrations of
woodwork by Mr. Joseph Armitage, including a
set of carved communion-rail panels executed
by him as part of a scheme in All Saints’ Church,
Newtown, Linford, in memory of Lad}7 Jane
Grey, and we now illustrate some further
groups of carvings designed and executed by
him for the same scheme.
Various suggestions have been put forward
for national memorials, and one in particular,
outlined bv Mr. Brangwyn, has attracted public
attention and received the endorsement of the
distinguished French sculptor, M. Auguste
Rodin. Mr. Brangwyn wants to see a noble
building, a sort of National Pantheon, built in
a wide open space, and which either in sculpture
outside or in decorations within should tell the
story of the war. Another suggestion is that
the present much criticized railway bridge over
the river at Charing Cross should be replaced
by a stately structure which should combine
the functions of a thoroughfare and a monument
worthy of the chief city of the Empire. Both
suggestions are deserving of careful considera-
tion, and it might indeed be possible to combine
them, but whatever form the nation’s memorial
to its heroic dead takes, the task is one which,
as Mr. Brangwyn says, calls for the highest
genius, and there ought to be no haste in the
adoption of a definite scheme. In this con-
nexion the suggestion of the Civic Arts Asso-
ciation, that owing to the absence of nearly all
our younger sculptors and craftsmen on active
service the execution of memorials to the
fallen should be as far as possible deferred till
after the war, deserves attention.
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PANELS (CARVED, PAINTED, AND GILDED) FORMING PART OF A
LADY JANE GREY IN ALL SAINTS* CHURCH, NEWTOWN, LINFORD
SCHEME OF WOODWORK IN MEMORY OF
(EVERARD, SON AND PICK, ARCHITECTS).
BY JOSEPH ARMITAGE
example of the manner in which an unpretend-
ing subject can be dignified by sound crafts-
manship and artistic resource. The artist’s
quietly confident draughtsmanship and agree-
able management of subdued yet effective
colour give significance to a piece of work
which in less able hands might easily have
become trivial.
Last July we gave some illustrations of
woodwork by Mr. Joseph Armitage, including a
set of carved communion-rail panels executed
by him as part of a scheme in All Saints’ Church,
Newtown, Linford, in memory of Lad}7 Jane
Grey, and we now illustrate some further
groups of carvings designed and executed by
him for the same scheme.
Various suggestions have been put forward
for national memorials, and one in particular,
outlined bv Mr. Brangwyn, has attracted public
attention and received the endorsement of the
distinguished French sculptor, M. Auguste
Rodin. Mr. Brangwyn wants to see a noble
building, a sort of National Pantheon, built in
a wide open space, and which either in sculpture
outside or in decorations within should tell the
story of the war. Another suggestion is that
the present much criticized railway bridge over
the river at Charing Cross should be replaced
by a stately structure which should combine
the functions of a thoroughfare and a monument
worthy of the chief city of the Empire. Both
suggestions are deserving of careful considera-
tion, and it might indeed be possible to combine
them, but whatever form the nation’s memorial
to its heroic dead takes, the task is one which,
as Mr. Brangwyn says, calls for the highest
genius, and there ought to be no haste in the
adoption of a definite scheme. In this con-
nexion the suggestion of the Civic Arts Asso-
ciation, that owing to the absence of nearly all
our younger sculptors and craftsmen on active
service the execution of memorials to the
fallen should be as far as possible deferred till
after the war, deserves attention.
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