Day
two
THE
NAVE AND ADVENT CANDLES
The
nave and aisles were part of the original church, built between 1914-1916 in
the Decorated style by architect George Halford Fellowes Prynne (1853–1927).
Prynne
designed many parish churches mostly in the southeast and southwest, and almost
always on a grand scale of high church Gothic Revival.
His plans here, for a spire and Sanctuary, never came to full realisation because of the
First World War. We can though enjoy most of his vision for St Michael including
the candy-twist columns that ‘process’ up towards a Sanctuary eventually built between
1954-55.
Proud
stand the Advent Candles in their wreath of evergreen!
The
wreath is shaped in a circle to symbolise the eternity of God. Four candles,
one for each week in Advent, and one larger white candle in the middle as the
Christ candle. This is traditionally a Lutheran practice; appropriate this year,
2017, the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door
of the castle chapel in Wittenberg.
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