The church was designed by Basil Spence and built in 1957-59. The mural was Gordon’s first major tile commission. The mural stands in the porch of the church and depicts scenes from the life of St. Aidan. Gordon had previously produced studio potte...
The mural was commissioned in 1957 by the City Planning & Redevelopment Committee on the recommendation of Arthur Ling, chief architect to the corporation, to illustrate the spirit in which the reconstruction of Coventry was undertaken. It was ma...
John Wimbleton, by Joshua Mardell The parish church of St. Paul’s, Lorrimore Square, occupies a very central position within the Brandon Estate, Southwark. The Brandon Estate was the first large scheme of rehabilitation of existing houses combine...
Anthony Hollaway, by Richard Brook The former University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) campus, now part of the University of Manchester, is home to some of Manchester’s finest 1960s buildings and structures. The sculptu...
Text and Images by David Walker Kensington & Chelsea Town Hall is often considered the last work of Sir Basil Spence. It was completed on 29 November 1976, ten days after the passing of its architect. But Spence had in fact been commissioned in ...
Clifton Roman Catholic Cathedral, Bristol, by Ronald Weeks of the Percy Thomas Partnership, 1966-73 Text and images by Robert Proctor Set amongst the leafy stone terraces of Clifton, the Roman Catholic Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Pa...
Words by Mark Goldie, photographs by Barry Phipps There is a chapel at Churchill College, but no chapel of Churchill College. The preposition denotes a truce after a battle, a donnish compromise. It was a device by which those who passionate...
A colour filled 20th Century meditational ‘shrine’ in the heart of Sussex: Basil Spence’s Meeting House on the grounds of the University of Sussex Owing to growing secularisation, there was a noticeable shift during the 20th century, from a con...
The English university system was not greatly challenged until the 1960s - as Stefan Muthesius says in The Post-War University Utopianus Campus and College (2000), "there were the two old foundations and 'the rest'"(p.59). The sixties bore witness to...
Coventry Cathedral, collaborations in art and architecture - Cassie Herschel-Shorland, Committee member and Hon Events Secretary Current Celebration The 40th anniversary of the consecration of the new Coventry cathedral was celebrated in May 2002. A ...
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