Taken when the Cross was being hauled into place, Sept 2018

A selection of objects for our descendents to discover! This work of art will probably still be in position in centuries to come, but one day someone might wonder what that bung in the bottom of the Cross was for...

As featured in 'The Daily Telegraph'

The Cross, front side as viewed from the Nave

The Cross is a double sided icon, so that it can be viewed from the nave and from the Choir. This is the view from the Choir showing Christ Risen, the Lord of All

I led a team of my colleagues and students. Lee Harvey and Hanna Ward are occasional tutors at the Bethlehem Icon School, while Nicola, Anton and Judith were students. 

I led a team of my colleagues and students. Lee Harvey and Hanna Ward are occasional tutors at the Bethlehem Icon School, while Nicola, Dima and Sr Esther were students. Also in the photo is the Very Revd Adrian Dorber, Dean of the Cathedral

Christ pours Himself out for the life of the world.

The Cross structure arrives at the Cathedral by truck from DYlan Hartley's studio in Shropshire.

Final sketch of the Virgin Mary

Final sketch of St John

The Cross, initial sketch

The Cross, proposal A

The Cross, proposal B

The Cross, proposal C, 

A full scale model of the proposed Cross was made in the summer of 2017

The studio for the making of the marquette

August 2016, The figure of the Virgin Mary being erected in the nave. Wrought iron frames were 

My team of students, Nicola, Noura and Loris with the Dean pose by the newly erected icon of the Archangel Gabriel 

The first Icon, of the Archangel Gabriel, is brought from the studio into the Cathedral

Erecting the wrought iron frames which will house the icons, made locally in Staffordshire.

Part of the wrought iron stands.

The initial design