he valued most highly. Throughout his life works: St Augustine, Pendlebury; Hoare copes was restrained and seemly, stately
he was a devout Anglo-Catholic, schooled Cross; Clumber Park Chapel (from which and measured as any of his buildings.
in the principles of the Oxford Movement he was sacked by the Duke of Newcastle A sympathetic and eloquent tribute was
and the Tractarians. He was thoroughly when the work exceeded the estimate by delivered by Mr Michael Hall, the editor
articulate in the English Gothic style and some way); St Wilfred, Cantley; St Agatha, of Apollo magazine, who also curated
designed with a degree of refinement and Sparkbrook. Illustrations of stained glass the exhibition. A wreath was laid at his
artistry that sought to put architecture and by William Morris, John Burlison and faux-Jacobean memorial, incongruous
art of the highest quality to the service of Thomas Grylls are shown to good effect, in its setting and oddly dissonant with
the life and the liturgical expression of the although they are trumped by a magnifi- his architectural style and philosophy,
Church. His unswerving principle was the cent cartoon, dramatic, striking, vivid, of but explained in that he claimed kinship
integration of the liturgy and life of the St Michael slaying the dragon which was with the seventeenth-century Bodley who
Church with its architectural and artistic drawn for a window in the church of St founded the eponymous library in Oxford.
setting. The Psalmist sings of the ‘beauty of Michael and All Angels, Brighton. Although the commemorative service is
holiness’ in the worship of God and Bod- The exhibition is supplemented by a over, the exhibition goes on into the new
ley’s career and achievement speak of the cope from St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, a book year and is worth a visit.
holiness of beauty. of Bodley’s poems (perhaps not quite up to
John Grainger
In 1872 he entered into a highly fruit- the standard of his architecture but show-
ful partnership with Thomas Garner and ing a deep devotion), a chalice and a stun-
they collaborated with and employed the ning banner, shining gold against a rich red
best of designers, craftsmen and artists of background, created for the Confraternity THE FIRST EMPEROR
the day. The exhibition highlights work by of the Blessed Sacrament. British Museum
William Morris, Charles Edward Kempe, On Saturday, 3 November there was a Until 6 April 2008
Burne-Jones and Ninian Comper. Comper commemoration of Bodley’s life in Holy Admission £12
was Bodley’s pupil and is represented by a Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road,
couple of exquisite pattern drawings and which attracted a large congregation. It If one cannot visit the real thing then this
an architectural drawing of Holy Angels, was an apt setting. Behind the unassuming exhibition offers an informative glimpse at
Hoare Cross, executed when he was nine- façade of this his last work, incomplete at a young man’s extraordinary achievement,
teen years old and in the second day of his the time of his death, is an interior of gener- a well-presented programme starting with
pupilage. It is of such deft touches that this ous space and an ‘amplitude of light’ which the warring states and ending with the
exhibition endears itself. owes much to the elegant slender pillars mystery of the tomb.
Against the background of a Bodley and the double north aisle which help to Born in 259bc, Ying Zheng became
wallpaper are arrayed drawings, paint- create the delicate airiness. The service of King of Qin (pronounced Chin) at the
ings and illustrations of some of his great Solemn Evensong with the clergy in Bodley age of 13 and was at war with the six other
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