DOI Heft:
No. 80 (November, 1899)
DOI Artikel:British decorative art in 1899, and the Arts And Crafts Exhibition, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0148
Arts and Crafts
it
decorations by Mr. Heywood Sumner, so full an this autumn upon the middle division of the
account appeared in The Studio of April last year church. It is proposed to decorate the western
that little remains to be added. The photographic wall with medallions representing the Days of
reproductions then given explained the plan of the Creation. The whole, when finished, should afford
ornamentation of All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, an instance, not only of a complete and consecutive
As the work can only be carried on as funds permit, scheme realised from end to end, but also of an
about one-third of the nave, to speak roughly, is artist's triumph over the disadvantages of a most
taken in hand at a time. The easternmost part is ill-favoured and commonplace building. Altogether
already done, and Mr. Sumner has been engaged apart from the artistic value of the coloured deco-
rations, the removal of
the ponderous excres-
cences in the shape of
consoles, pilasters, and
brackets, which serve no
structural purpose what-
ever, is in itself an im-
mense improvement, and
gives the church a scale
and dignity which, in its
original state, it certainly
could not boast.
The circles here shown,
depicting respectively
Man before and after the
Fall, are fitted into the
spandrils over the
columns ; while the up-
right panels of St. George
and St. Christopher be-
long to the series rang-
ing on a line with the
clerestory windows. The
latter are arranged in
pairs, and Mr. Sumner
has wisely refrained from
placing his figures in the
narrow intervening strips
where the halation, to
adopt a metaphor from
photography, would pre-
vent the principal objects
being seen, but in the
wider spaces of unbroken
wall between each bay.
The ornamental glaz-
ing at All Saints' (except
that in the apse, about
which the less said the
better) is being furnished
by Mr. Sumner. The
v windows are executed
. solely with leading of
various thickness and
: THE BLACK CAT." TOTTERY PANEL 1SY LEON V. SOLON Prior's pOt-mCtal J nO
128
it
decorations by Mr. Heywood Sumner, so full an this autumn upon the middle division of the
account appeared in The Studio of April last year church. It is proposed to decorate the western
that little remains to be added. The photographic wall with medallions representing the Days of
reproductions then given explained the plan of the Creation. The whole, when finished, should afford
ornamentation of All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, an instance, not only of a complete and consecutive
As the work can only be carried on as funds permit, scheme realised from end to end, but also of an
about one-third of the nave, to speak roughly, is artist's triumph over the disadvantages of a most
taken in hand at a time. The easternmost part is ill-favoured and commonplace building. Altogether
already done, and Mr. Sumner has been engaged apart from the artistic value of the coloured deco-
rations, the removal of
the ponderous excres-
cences in the shape of
consoles, pilasters, and
brackets, which serve no
structural purpose what-
ever, is in itself an im-
mense improvement, and
gives the church a scale
and dignity which, in its
original state, it certainly
could not boast.
The circles here shown,
depicting respectively
Man before and after the
Fall, are fitted into the
spandrils over the
columns ; while the up-
right panels of St. George
and St. Christopher be-
long to the series rang-
ing on a line with the
clerestory windows. The
latter are arranged in
pairs, and Mr. Sumner
has wisely refrained from
placing his figures in the
narrow intervening strips
where the halation, to
adopt a metaphor from
photography, would pre-
vent the principal objects
being seen, but in the
wider spaces of unbroken
wall between each bay.
The ornamental glaz-
ing at All Saints' (except
that in the apse, about
which the less said the
better) is being furnished
by Mr. Sumner. The
v windows are executed
. solely with leading of
various thickness and
: THE BLACK CAT." TOTTERY PANEL 1SY LEON V. SOLON Prior's pOt-mCtal J nO
128