Master Carvers’ Association
Our Friends, the Friends of City Churches, continued to host Grinling Gibbons Tercentenary events, now recorded with rich provand in Skyline
The May 2022 edition of Skyline, the magazine of Friends of City Churches edited by Judy Stephenson, has a fascinating account by Tony Webb, President MCA, of The Replacement of the Incense Pots on the South Portico of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
The Friends of City Churches have proved to be great friends of Master Carvers’ Association cooperating and accommodating many Grinling Gibbons Tercentenary events.
Grinling Gibbons gets a mentioned in the February 2022 edition of Skyline, The Magazine of the Friends of City Churches, February 2022
What a magical evening at St Mary Abchurch on 5 August! The concert was the first of a series to mark the tercentenary of Grinling Gibbons’ death.
World of Interiors, November 2021 – The Funky Gibbons – Text: Katie Puckrik. Photography: Antony Crolla https://www.worldofinteriors.co.uk Download article (pdf)
Judy Stephenson writes; On Friday 30 July (a date on which in 1721 Grinling Gibbons would still have been alive) in front of his authenticated
The burning questions for anyone who owns or has guardianship of a Gibbons style carving are – Is it genuine? Is it carved by Gibbons
Grinling Gibbons, the great Anglo-Dutch wood-carver, died 300 years ago, on 3rd August 1721, aged 73. In the Spring issue of The Oldie, Loyd Grossman
The following walk passes buildings and places associated with Grinling Gibbons and his times, and includes a visit to St Mary Abchurch where an exhibition of Master Carvers’ work is highlighting the living tradition of carving, as part of the Gibbons’ Tercentenary celebrations: Art and Ornament.