Carved angel roundal.

Agreed.
There were four angels, all slightly different. The faces & hair were beautifully carved. I like the way the wood grain has been used in this one.

St Mary’s Church, #Stamford, #Lincolnshire

Decorative scheme by #JDSedding

#WoodcarvingWednesday
#Woodensday

The upper torso of a praying angel carved in the round.

St Mary’s Church, #Stamford #Lincolnshire

A scheme of #ArtsandCrafts decoration by #JDSedding.

The choir stalls have angel medallions, according to #Pevsner “similar to ones at Sedding’s Holy Trinity, Sloane Square”

The angel’s hair is #Pre-Raphaelite like.

#WoodcarvingWednesday
#Woodensday

Lozenge shaped panel with ironwork in centre. Carvings of Agnus Dei & figures blowing trumpets.

👀 #Holbeton #Devon

#ArtsandCrafts door, maybe by #JDSedding?

Note ironwork & carvings of Agnus Dei & figures blowing trumpets.

#AdoorableThursday
#IronworkThursday

Open door with view through to font & stained glass window. Lozenge shaped carving with iron fittings.

👀 #Holbeton #Devon

#ArtsandCrafts door, but is it by #JDSedding?

#HistoricEngland - “Good furnishings by Sedding including .. south door”

J D Sedding said to #HenryWilson write on my gravestone, “He made the doors at Holbeton & was an artist in his way”

#AdoorableThursday
#IronworkThursday

Wooden chancel roof with bosses & starlike decoration.

👀 All Saints’ Church, #Holbeton #Devon

Chancel roof with bosses of 1885-9 by #JDSedding

#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday
#Architecture

A barrel roof, with painted ribs & bosses of red roses. The ceiling is blue with painted stars.

Church of St Torney, #NorthHill #Cornwall

#Victorian chancel ceiling - 1868

Painted by #JDSedding.

An #architect who believed in #ArtsandCrafts principles - “hands on” - practising skills that he would later expect craftsmen to do.

#SundayStonework
#alwayslookup #CeilingsOnSunday

👀 St Lawrence’s Church,
Bigbury, #Devon

19th Century #Victorian tiles

The church was rebuilt by Edmund & #JDSedding between 1868-72.

#TilesOnTuesday