Category: Sculpture

En Passant

You may pop into a church, if it’s not locked, to say a little prayer. I go in to look at architecture and monuments; always to a greater or lesser extent rewarding and I can say a little prayer when I get home.

Silk Roads

Samarkand, spices, caravanserai, camels; we are on the Silk Road. So much more romantic then its modern manifestation: China’s Belt and Road project.

Otter Things

There may be a few otters depicted in churches but they are usually relatively modern; like this window in Newcastle Cathedral. It references a legend that St Cuthbert prayed standing up to his neck in the North Sea at night and in the morning was warmed up on the shore by otters.

Archipelagic Void

South Korean architect, Minsuk Cho, has created Archipelagic Void outside The Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. I went to see it yesterday.

Lumley Chapel

There is an abundance of magnificent funerary monuments in England. Yesterday I went to Cheam and saw some corkers.

Three Shorts

Frank Short (1857 – 1945) was born in Worcestershire and trained as a civil engineer.

Back to Baroque

My Great Aunt Aline (Lloyd Thomas) is buried in the churchyard of St Swithun (sic), Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire.

Father and Son

Ambrosio Bernardo O’Higgins y O’Higgins, 1st Marquess of Osorno (1720 – 1801) was born on the eastern shore of Lough Arrow in Sligo.

The Duke of Cumberland

“The Titles Deprivation Act (1917) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which authorised enemies of the United Kingdom during the First World War to be deprived of their British peerages and royal titles.”(Wikipedia)