I LOVE Mary Watt's chapel in Compton and the little angels around the graves there... and the well! My favourite painting is Hope. I like it that they have no electric light to spoil the paintings inside, and she reformed so many of the gin drinkers giving them work. Thank you so much for reminding me of something very special!
This is indeed beautiful, and the beauty alone is certainly enough, yet Mary Watts has created a portal to the infinite with this stunning chapel. Thank you for this insightful essay, and for introducing me to a transcendent building I didn’t know existed. That was a good day out!
What a beautiful place and piece. I'm definitely going to stop off on my next journey between Devon and London. Thank you so much for reading my piece so gently and generously. It's one of those pieces I needed to write through to figure out what I think, but I suspect that the very action of writing it, and all the conversations it's sparked (including your wise comment), might have changed my mind about at least some of it before long. Glad to have your company in all these explorations.
Another fabulous read. Fascinated and inspired. Thanks for the pictures too. They took my breath away.
I LOVE Mary Watt's chapel in Compton and the little angels around the graves there... and the well! My favourite painting is Hope. I like it that they have no electric light to spoil the paintings inside, and she reformed so many of the gin drinkers giving them work. Thank you so much for reminding me of something very special!
This is indeed beautiful, and the beauty alone is certainly enough, yet Mary Watts has created a portal to the infinite with this stunning chapel. Thank you for this insightful essay, and for introducing me to a transcendent building I didn’t know existed. That was a good day out!
It was indeed! Thank you 🙏
Wow, I used to live near Guildford and never realised this jewel box existed. Thanks for a very thoughtful article.
What a beautiful place and piece. I'm definitely going to stop off on my next journey between Devon and London. Thank you so much for reading my piece so gently and generously. It's one of those pieces I needed to write through to figure out what I think, but I suspect that the very action of writing it, and all the conversations it's sparked (including your wise comment), might have changed my mind about at least some of it before long. Glad to have your company in all these explorations.
Thank you, that’s very kind :-)
I really enjoyed your piece, especially because it sparked a train of thought!