Reredos at York Minster by George Tinworth for Doulton, in the chapel at the end of the north choir aisle; the subject is The First Hour of the Crucifixion (Pearson 374).
Reredos and Altar
The grey terracotta is painted and gilded to resemble wood carving, and was set in a wooden frame designed previously, in 1875, by G. E. Street in 1875. The terracotta itself was later, and dates from 1879 (Pevsner and Neave 144).
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Bibliography
Pevsner, Nikolaus, and David Neave. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.
Pearson, Lynn. Tile Gazetteer: A Guide to British Tile and Architectural Ceramics Locations. Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society, 2005.
Created 23 April 2022