Gabriel Pippet (1880 in
Solihull
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– 1962) was an
English
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artist.
As well as being was an artist, he was known as an illustrator and a
wood carver
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. Pippet's work was influenced by
Pre-Raphaelites, the
Arts and Crafts Movement, and
medieval manuscript design. Pippet is buried in
Droitwich
Droitwich Spa (often abbreviated to Droitwich ) is an historic spa town in the Wychavon district in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe. It is located approximately south-west of Birmingham and north-east of Worcester.
The ...
next to the
Church of the Sacred Heart, whose
mosaic
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s he designed.
Work
Gabriel Pippet's art and designs decorated several churches and chapels in its various forms. Amongst these are:
* the
Oxford Oratory
The Oxford Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga (or Oxford Oratory for short) is the Catholic parish church for the centre of Oxford, England. It is located at 25 Woodstock Road, next to Somerville College. The church is served by the Congreg ...
,
Oxford
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, where Pippet's designs decorated Sacred Heart Chapel (before 1907)
* St Mary's Church,
Douai Abbey
Douai Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey at Upper Woolhampton, near Thatcham, in the English county of Berkshire, situated within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. Monks from the monastery of St. Edmund's, in Douai, France, came to Woolhampton ...
,
Berkshire, scenes from the life of St Benedict as recorded in St Gregory's Dialogues (1913)
*
The Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria
The Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria is a Catholic church situated in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, England, noted for its remarkable mosaics.
Walter Loveridge Hodgkinson was a main benefactor of the church. The archit ...
,
Droitwich
Droitwich Spa (often abbreviated to Droitwich ) is an historic spa town in the Wychavon district in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe. It is located approximately south-west of Birmingham and north-east of Worcester.
The ...
, where Pippet designed the images to be depicted in mosaics by
Maurice Josey (1922-1934). Pippet also created wood carvings for the church.
At one point Pippet lived at
Hare Street House
Hare Street House is a Grade II* listed building in the hamlet of Hare Street that lies between Buntingford and Great Hormead in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is mainly associated with the Roman Catholic priest a ...
the home of Monsignor
Robert Hugh Benson
Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican priest, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein the next year. He ...
, and he and Pippet worked together on wood carving and panelling. Pippet used wood-cuts to illustrate Benson's books.
Bibliography (Illustrated by Gabriel Pippet)
''A Child's Rule of Life''by
Robert Hugh Benson
Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican priest, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein the next year. He ...
, digitized by Richard Mammana
* ''Old Testament Rhymes'' by
Robert Hugh Benson
Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican priest, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein the next year. He ...
* ''Still More Old Rhymes with New Tunes'' by
Richard Runciman Terry
Sir Richard Runciman Terry (3 January 1864 – 18 April 1938) was an English organist, choir director and musicologist. He is noted for his pioneering revival of Tudor liturgical music.
Early years
Richard Terry was born in 1864 in Ellington, ...
* ''Traffic and Theatre Rhymes'' by
Guy Boas
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* ''Fifteen Roses: Being Our Lady's Rosary in Verse'' by Hamilton Moore.
* ''The Stations of the Cross'' by
Richard Rolle
Richard Rolle ( – 30 September 1349) was an English hermit, mystic, and religious writer. He is also known as Richard Rolle of Hampole or de Hampole, since at the end of his life he lived near a Cistercian nunnery in Hampole, now in Sou ...
, 1917.
*The Imitation of Christ,Thomas à Kempis
External links
The Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria mosaics, Droitwich
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1880 births
1962 deaths
Droitwich Spa
English artists
People from Solihull