Author: |Posted: 11:06 am on 09/03/09
Category: Snowblog
I have been there often before. Each time I see something I haven’t noticed before. I’m talking about the extraordinary Stanley Spencer murals that consume the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere, near Newbury, in Berkshire.
There’s no artificial lighting in the chapel, which is no bigger than a large living room. It was built to remember a soldier who fell in the first world war. Spencer took six years to paint the murals, which depict scenes from the Macedonian campaign in which the soldier, Lt Henry Sandham, was killed.
