tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3313295143497097608.post404238369455280008..comments2023-08-14T16:25:12.421+01:00Comments on Medieval Church Art: Clayton and Bell at FreelandAllan Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00499774849106432968noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3313295143497097608.post-23187653164859690542008-12-16T12:12:00.000+00:002008-12-16T12:12:00.000+00:00Roger, the alabaster reredos is part of the origin...Roger, the alabaster reredos is part of the original Pearson scheme and if I remember correctly the wallpaintings continue behind it. <BR/><BR/>There was quite a lot of outrage when this church was constructed, most of it directed against the image of Our Lady and the Blessed Infant above the south porch.Allan Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00499774849106432968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3313295143497097608.post-78289605456541487652008-12-10T01:24:00.000+00:002008-12-10T01:24:00.000+00:00Have now checked out the Freeland and Toxteth Park...Have now checked out the Freeland and Toxteth Park reredoses on a better monitor and the resemblance is more superficial than it seemed on a poor monitor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3313295143497097608.post-36330755707348093872008-12-09T21:53:00.000+00:002008-12-09T21:53:00.000+00:00You've been so busy this past few days that there'...You've been so busy this past few days that there's too much to catch up on, but can't let this one pass. Beautiful, high-quality Victorian church, and apparently quite unspoiled. Fine decorative scheme in the chancel. Is the reredos part of Pearson's decorative scheme (it has much in common with the reredos at St Agnes, Toxteth, that Fr Kenyon illustrated at Anglican Wanderings a few days back) or does it conceal additional wall paintings? Toxteth is about ten years later than Freeland and stylistically the reredos seems closer, to my eye, to Pearson's later church.<BR/><BR/>ps Will attempt to remember to post under my own name, but occasionally, when I am logged in to it and absent-minded, my rabbit persona intrudes, but we are one and the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3313295143497097608.post-43331554614505522052008-12-06T20:01:00.000+00:002008-12-06T20:01:00.000+00:00That's a place I most want to see, so I'll be watc...That's a place I most want to see, so I'll be watching this place very closely!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3313295143497097608.post-52248826683832911362008-12-06T16:26:00.000+00:002008-12-06T16:26:00.000+00:00So am I, I think there work is actually exceptiona...So am I, I think there work is actually exceptionally good. I find their glass, particularly their later output, a bit hit and miss though. There early work is very good, thinking notably of the glass they produced in connection with G E Street in Oxfordshire and the Yorkshire Wolds. <BR/><BR/>At some point soon I will be going over to Garton on the Wolds to photograph the wallpaintings there. Watch this space.Allan Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00499774849106432968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3313295143497097608.post-45387987979632235052008-12-06T15:19:00.000+00:002008-12-06T15:19:00.000+00:00I'm a great proponent of Clayton and Bell despite ...I'm a great proponent of Clayton and Bell despite their "commercial" output. Bell, of course, was a superb draughtsman and their artistic standards for such a large firm were exceptionally high.<BR/><BR/>Many complain about them, but consider how impoverished the churches would be without their work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com