Painting in the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Paddington
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Painting in the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Paddington
Image: © Marathon Taken: 15 Feb 2022
The Church of St Mary Magdalene in Paddington was completed in 1878 and is Grade I Listed. The architect was George Edmund Street. It was built near the Grand Union Canal in a very poor area with the belief that services full of light, colour and music would appeal to the poor. For a photograph of the interior see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7097287 This painting is near the west entrance. It was painted in 2014 by the church's Artist-in-Residence who was there for three years, during which time he painted a monumental series of pictures. This is his farewell to Paddington and imagines the biblical Mary Magdalene in the setting of the nearby contemporary Warwick Estate. It reminds me of an illustration for an M.R. James ghost story.
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