page_title: St Cuthbert's, Earls Court
section_title: The Rood
hierarchical_section_title: St Cuthbert's, Earls Court / Interior Decoration / The Rood
caption_attribution_description: English: St Cuthberts Rood Screen South Side Altar
context_page_description: St Cuthbert's, Philbeach Gardens is a Grade I listed Anglican church at 50 Philbeach Gardens, Earls Court, London SW5.
  The Church was built 1884–87, designed by the architect Hugh Roumieu Gough, son of Alexander Dick Gough. The interior furnishings designed by William Bainbridge Reynolds who was a member of the congregation. It has been hailed as Jewel of the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
  The church is situated on the north west of Philbeach Gardens in Earls Court near the West Cromwell Road. Adjoining the church is the clergy house, and to that the Philbeach Hall.
  St Cuthberts is noted for its interior decoration and its style of worship.
context_section_description: H. R. Gough contributed little to the church after 1888, but he did design The Rood screen and made by Jones and Willis, (1893), with the figure of Christ after that in Capilla Real, Granada Cathedral. The Rood loft has an altar on the south side with a Tabernacle where the Blessed Sacrament was reserved as the bishop of London, John Jackson, objected to the Sacrament being reserved in the Lady Chapel, so to strictly comply with the bishop's instruction The Sacrament was reserved in the Rood Screen altar Tabernacle. On the Feast of the Translation of The Relics of St Cuthbert on 4 September 2015 the three Relics held by the parish were moved to the altar to a  permanent reliquary. The Latin inscription is from the first chapter of St John's Gospel – Verbum caro fact est et habitat in nobs – The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
caption: Rood Screen Altar
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