Church chair
Frank Loughborough Pearson
Category
Furniture
Date
1906
Materials
Oak
Measurements
960 x 1170 x 735 mm
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Cliveden Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 765914
Summary
A carved oak cleric's seat and prie dieu, joined by a platform. The chair's sides flanked by kneeling boys and filled with pierced scroll-work, each resting on two paw feet. The back panelled with diamonds within squares beneath a mask head and leaf band. Putti playing instruments within leaf work fill the prie dieu sides.
Full description
Carved oak cleric's chair and prie dieu, joined by a platform.
Provenance
The interior of Giacomo Leoni‟s Temple of c.1735 was re-designed by Frank L Pearson on the instruction of W W Astor to create a chapel and family mausoleum which was consecrated in 1906. Pearson was a good choice to re-design the chapel as he had completed five commissions between 1895 and 1903 to refurbish chapels in Scotland; these included a triptych for the Holy Trinity Church in Ayr (1896) and reredos and choir stalls for St Ninians Episcopal Cathedral Perth (1898) The walls, floor, windows and furniture for the Cliveden chapel were conceived by the architect a single decorative scheme and should be understood in that context.
Makers and roles
Frank Loughborough Pearson , designer Messrs. Moos Brothers , maker