LOT DETAILS

Materials:

limestone

Size Notes:

high

Exhibited:

One such project the pair worked on between 1845 and 1852 was St Augustine's Abbey Church in Ramsgate, Kent, a church which Pugin not only designed, but paid for and where he was ultimately laid to rest. Within the church, Myers was given a number of prestigious assignments, such as the tabernacle and the throne which he at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and a niche statue of the Virgin and Child. This statue, a very close comparable of which can be found in another church of Pugin's design at St David's, Pantasaph, Flintshire, bears stylistic similarities to the present lot

Provenance:

By repute removed from The Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, The Old Palace, Mayfield, Sussex. The convent converted from ruins of a medieval building by Edward Welby Pugin between 1863-1866