DOI Heft:
No. 80 (November, 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0154
Studio- Talk
little of the completeness of the result. The colour
adopted in the John Ball was a scheme of yellow,
brown, and green, and in the Wat Tyler, blue,
green, and red.
LIVERPOOL.—There is something very
fresh, unconventional, and fitting in
the design of the newly completed
church for the Unitarian Congregation
of Liscard—the gift of Mrs. W. Elam as
a memorial to her late husband. The architects,
Messrs. Ware and Rathbone, have very success-
fully produced an original and pleasing exterior
(in white stone and red brick) for the front abut-
ting on the main road, the special feature of this
being the octagona porch standing on columns and
surmounted by a steep and picturesque turret roof.
The angles of the octagon above the columns are
adorned with the sculptured figures of " Medita-
tion," " Eloquence," " Devotion," and " Music,"
representing the influences connected with worship,
the sculptor being Mr. Benjamin Creswick, of Bir-
mingham. These figures in conjunction with the
excellent stone carving of the column caps display
graceful contours from all-round points of view.
The well-proportioned interior with its single-
span open roof is decidedly satisfactory in the
simplicity of its design and arrangement. The wall
surfaces are probably intended for a fuller and
richer colour scheme such as would enhance the
effect of the furniture and fittings. The seating for
about three hundred persons is stained in green.
The choir benches, communion-table, and pulpit
are all of oak stained green, and decorated with
painted figure-subjects by Mr. Bernard Sleigh, of
the Bromsgrove Guild of Arts and Crafts.
Behind the communion-table the wall is decorated
with large panels of " Delia Robbia " ware executed
by Mr. Harold Rathbone, the subjects shown by the
accompanying illustrations. The electroliers hang-
ing from the roof are of beaten copper, very suitable
in form, and not over-elaborated, the work of Mr.
Walter Gilbert. A general study of the various
details of the building conveys the impression of
very careful and happy collaboration of architect
and decorative craftsmen. H. B. B.
BIRMINGHAM.—So rapid has been the
growth of the Corporation Museum
and Art Gallery that the present build-
ings, considered ample fifteen years
ago, are to-day so overcrowded that it
is impossible to exhibit many of the art objects to
the best advantage, or the whole of the permanent
" DELLA ROBBIA" PANEL
134
BY HAROLD RATIIBOXE
little of the completeness of the result. The colour
adopted in the John Ball was a scheme of yellow,
brown, and green, and in the Wat Tyler, blue,
green, and red.
LIVERPOOL.—There is something very
fresh, unconventional, and fitting in
the design of the newly completed
church for the Unitarian Congregation
of Liscard—the gift of Mrs. W. Elam as
a memorial to her late husband. The architects,
Messrs. Ware and Rathbone, have very success-
fully produced an original and pleasing exterior
(in white stone and red brick) for the front abut-
ting on the main road, the special feature of this
being the octagona porch standing on columns and
surmounted by a steep and picturesque turret roof.
The angles of the octagon above the columns are
adorned with the sculptured figures of " Medita-
tion," " Eloquence," " Devotion," and " Music,"
representing the influences connected with worship,
the sculptor being Mr. Benjamin Creswick, of Bir-
mingham. These figures in conjunction with the
excellent stone carving of the column caps display
graceful contours from all-round points of view.
The well-proportioned interior with its single-
span open roof is decidedly satisfactory in the
simplicity of its design and arrangement. The wall
surfaces are probably intended for a fuller and
richer colour scheme such as would enhance the
effect of the furniture and fittings. The seating for
about three hundred persons is stained in green.
The choir benches, communion-table, and pulpit
are all of oak stained green, and decorated with
painted figure-subjects by Mr. Bernard Sleigh, of
the Bromsgrove Guild of Arts and Crafts.
Behind the communion-table the wall is decorated
with large panels of " Delia Robbia " ware executed
by Mr. Harold Rathbone, the subjects shown by the
accompanying illustrations. The electroliers hang-
ing from the roof are of beaten copper, very suitable
in form, and not over-elaborated, the work of Mr.
Walter Gilbert. A general study of the various
details of the building conveys the impression of
very careful and happy collaboration of architect
and decorative craftsmen. H. B. B.
BIRMINGHAM.—So rapid has been the
growth of the Corporation Museum
and Art Gallery that the present build-
ings, considered ample fifteen years
ago, are to-day so overcrowded that it
is impossible to exhibit many of the art objects to
the best advantage, or the whole of the permanent
" DELLA ROBBIA" PANEL
134
BY HAROLD RATIIBOXE