Southwell Minster Nottinghamshire

Sixteen Romanesque Windows – My contemporary artwork uses a timeless North and South Transepts geometric design in keeping with this 12th (each 1.2m x 2.5m) 1998 century historic building. It also follows structural considerations, as it is supported by a Following Keith Barley’s collaboration with architect new external steel grid constructed in the style Martin Stancliffe and artist Patrick Reyntiens to create a of the Norman period when Southwell Minster new West Window for Southwell Minster, Barley Studio was founded. was commissioned to create sixteen new windows for the North and South transepts of the Minster. Each of the four medallion designs is based on interwoven geometric patterns pinned by The transepts and nave of Southwell Minster are among convex ornaments (spun bullion glass) and hand the best examples of 12th century Romanesque painted leaf arrangements. The patterns are architecture in England. However, the existing glazing emphasised by subtle tints of pink, blue, yellow of the transepts dated mainly from the 19th century and and green lattice-work and set against a was of a sombre hue. Martin Stancliffe proposed to background of tinted white glass. replace this glazing with a vibrant contemporary style which would embrace traditional features.

Bicentenary of the Bramley Apple – In the new design Bramley apples replace the bullions North Transept, West Wall in the interwoven geometric medallions to give a (1.2m x 2.5m) 2009 sense of pinning the knotwork together in a tree-like formation. The combination of the apple and In 2009, to mark the bicentenary of the creation of geometric branches suggests the Tree of Life. The the Bramley Apple and to incorporate this significant apples are emphasized by the existing subtle tints of part of Southwell’s history, one set of medallions was pink, blue, yellow and green latticework set against a re-designed. background of tinted white glass.