Christ Church, Ramsdell, Hampshire.
The Work:- Two Opus Sectile mosaic plaques..
Date:- 1922.
Location:- North wall.
Subject:- None.
Inscription:- None.
Dedication:- “These amongst us died that we remain free
Cyril Allen, Donald Allen, Francis Appleby, Edward Blake, Joseph Frankum, Cyril Froome, William Kimber, Beecham Lucock, Neville May,
Thomas Meers, Edward Seward, James Vince”.
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Info from Church records:- “The war memorial in the north nave, erected 1922 and consisting of a window with two plaques, is the work of William Glasby, one of the most noted craftsmen of the time. The window, signed in the lower right-hand corner, shows the influence of Burne-Jones and Glasby’s earlier commissions for Morris & Co. For the plaques, naming twelve parishioners who died in the First World War, he used a technique called opus sectile, known from Roman times and used in the thirteenth-century by the high alter in Westminster Abbey. The letters are cut in stone, filled with a paste of ground marble, then polished”.
See Also Log 143.
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With thanks to David Finch for data supplied during 2021.
(c) John Collin and Erika Szyszczak October 2021.
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