Art ancient and modern

Continuing the tale of Guildford cathedral, started getting on for a week ago now.

I have commented before on the commendable enthusiasm of ecclesiastical authorities for commissioning works of art, with the catch being that I quite often do not like what they end up with.

Stained glass in a rather lurid blue seems to be a popular item, with one large Catholic example being in the Lady Chapel of Buckfast Abbey. An Anglican example being the glass in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral. Guildford Cathedral offers this rather smaller example, at the east end, possibly over the bishop's seat (or cathedra to cognoscenti). Looks much better in this snap than I found it in real life.

Rather less common, was the collection of contemporary pots scattered about, in places both suitable and  unsuitable. My first thought was that this sort of free style pot, with no symmetry, radial or otherwise, seems to be all the thing these days. All rather silly. My second thought was that a pot of this sort might fit better in a small modern house than a formal pot. A formal pot might be a fine thing in itself, but does not adapt so easily to its surroundings.

Moving on to Dunsborough Park we had a fine collection of Victorian glass houses, in various states of repair.

The cost of bringing this one back up to new and keeping it there would be huge. And oddly enough, just last night (Saturday-Sunday), I had a rather complicated dream involving both a projected but unwanted holiday with friends in a caravan and a huge Victorian house in a narrow street in a village which had seen better days. A large three storey, red brick affair with a glazed wood entrance hall on the right as you faced it. Two stories of fretted white wood with glass, in a similar state of repair to that snapped above. I remember in the dream worrying about the cost of upkeep.

Perhaps the last hurrah of the Lumia 650?

Reference 1: https://mymemory.translated.net/en/Latin/English/cathedra. This chance find struck me as rather a good foreign language dictionary. I shall try it again when occasion next arises.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/pot-two.html. A proper pot, from Hampton Court, a large house with knobs on.

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