page_title: St Cuthbert's, Earls Court
section_title: Interior Decoration
hierarchical_section_title: St Cuthbert's, Earls Court / Interior Decoration
caption_attribution_description: English: St Cuthberts East and Rood listed building No. 266119
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: Associated with the vigour of St. Cuthbert's was a policy of beautification, which proceeded without a pause from 1887 until 1914 and turned an impressive but unoriginal building into a monument to turn-of-the- century AngloCatholic taste. Several architects and many craftsmen, professional and amateur, were
  involved in the process. The more elaborate jobs were entrusted to skilled professionals such as Bainbridge Reynolds, the clergyman-designer Ernest Geldart and the architect J. Harold Gibbons. But in addition the church's supporters organized themselves into 'guilds' which took on manifold decorative tasks in the Arts- and-Crafts spirit. Classes and workshops under professional guidance were arranged in stone- and woodcarving, metal-working and church embroidery, and the guilds then proceeded to their long labours. For example, the carved stone diapering of varying pattern gradually extended round the walls between 1890 and 1909 was the responsibility of the Guild of St. Peter, the chancel stalls were made by the Guild of St. Joseph, and the vestments by the Guild of St. Margaret.
caption: Interior of the church and Rood Screen
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