Comper

Indeed, most of Cram's generation -- Ninian Comper, Charles Maginnis, James Gamble Rogers and the rest -- have been largely forgot until only recently.

The Modern Baroque of Armando Brasini 2009

In the 20th century, the English liturgiologist Edmund Bishop helped further popularize this concept in a directly Catholic and liturgical context, and as Fr. Symondson suggests, his view of the matter was tied to "rich but controlled beauty" and "austerity and reserve informed by canons of beauty expressed in the developed Gothic style" with reference to the likes of Sir Ninian Comper specifically.

Contextualizing "Noble Simplicity" 2009

However, the sequence of photos below sent by a reader shows something a bit similar, if more official, and quite momentous from an art-historical view: the un-wreckovation of the high altar in St. Stephen's Chapel at the Anglican Cowley Fathers 'complex in Oxford, a space designed by Bodley with a ciborium by Comper.

Reverse Iconoclasm in One Hour or Less 2009

He greatly admired the rich but controlled beauty of Gothic vestments designed by the young Ninian Comper, Francis Davenport (himself a convert), the manager of Watts & Co in their heights, and Garner himself.

Noble Simplicity and the Liturgiologist Edmund Bishop 2009

I wished to share with readers some samples of some fine church textile work pursued by the like of Sir Ninian Comper.

Some Examples of Fine Gothic Revival Textile Work 2009

Its massiveness and rich gilding are the only thing that can stand out in the vast space, while there are quite a few moments of subtlety, such as the Comper-like fan-vaults that crown the vast structure.

The Lost Reredos of St. John the Divine 2009

A gothic revival triple crown pyx, found in Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, London, by Sir Ninian Comper.

The Hanging Pyx 2009

There are multiple versions by R.A. Cram from the 1930s and correspondence indicating a possible design by J.N. Comper dating all the way back to 1915.

The Lost Reredos of St. John the Divine 2009

Using a gothic context, it strikes me that the noble simplicity and noble beauty that the Church envisions could equally be found in the forms that characterized much mediaeval Cistercian architecture, to the more colourful and luminous work of the gothic revival movement and the likes of Sir Ninian Comper for example.

Noble Simplicity and the Liturgiologist Edmund Bishop 2009

Dearmer's influence was non-existant at Downside, principally because medievalism in a fuller Catholic context was established before the Parson's Handbook was published and Comper had already designed vestments for the Abbey long before the St Dunstan's Society and Warham Guild had been started by Dearmer in 1911 or so.

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