Sir Ninian Comper (1864-1960)

Influential church architect and furnisher of the Gothic Revival. John Ninian Comper was born in Aberdeen in 1864, the son of John Comper, who was an adherent of the Oxford Movement and ordained into the Scottish Episcopal Church. This Anglo-Catholic influence was influential, and is clear in Comper's adherence to Gothic. He worked in the offices of C.E. Kempe and Bodley and Garner before establishing his own practice in the late 1880s, initially with William Bucknall. Almost all of his work was ecclesiastical, with the notable exception of the Welsh National War Memorial in Cardiff.

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H. T. Kirby, 'Obituary: Ninian Comper (1864-1960)' Journal of the British Society of Master Glass-Painters, vol. xiii, no. 2 (1960–1), 447–8.

Anthony Symondson and Stephen Bucknall, Sir Ninian Comper: An Introduction to His Life and Work, with complete gazetteer (Reading: Spire Books, 2006).

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	Christ with St George and St Michael designer: Ninian Comper 1902 Church of St John the Baptist, Newport south wall of the south aisle
	The Annunciation designer: Ninian Comper Church of St John the Baptist, Newport east wall of the chancel
	The Adoration of the Shepherds designer: Ninian Comper 1912 Pentrefoelas Parish Church, Pentrefoelas, Conwy south wall of the nave
	Christ with the Virgin and Child, St John the Baptist, St Luke and St David designer: Ninian Comper 1915 Church of St John the Baptist, Cardiff east wall of the chancel
	The Adoration of the Magi with the Annunciation and the Visitation designer: Ninian Comper about 1920 Church of St John the Baptist, Cardiff Chapel of the Order of St John
	Christ and the Twelve Apostles designer: Ninian Comper artist: W.D. Gough painter: H.A.B. Bernard-Smith 1925 Church of St Margaret, Roath, Cardiff east wall of the chancel
	Christ Blessing Children Brought by their Mothers designer: Ninian Comper 1935 Church of St Peter, Glasbury, Powys south wall of the nave
	Virgin and Child designer: Ninian Comper 1935 Pentrefoelas Parish Church, Pentrefoelas, Conwy north wall of the nave
	Christ Healing the Woman with an Issue of Blood designer: Ninian Comper about 1946 Church of St John the Baptist, Newport south wall of the south aisle

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