page_title: J. D. Sedding
section_title: Buildings and church work
hierarchical_section_title: J. D. Sedding / Buildings and church work
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of England parish church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market (formerly Exmouth Street), Clerkenwell, London EC1, seen from the northwest from Yardley Street. The inscription over the main church door reads Christo Liberatori, which translates as "To Christ The Redeemer".
context_page_description: John Dando Sedding was an English church architect, working on new buildings and repair work, with an interest in a "crafted Gothic" style. He was an influential figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, many of whose leading designers, including Ernest Gimson, Ernest Barnsley and Herbert Ibberson, studied in his offices.
  His 1889 lecture, "The Architectural Treatment of Gardens", was influential in the revival espoused by Reginald Blomfield, of "Jacobean" features such as terraces, covered walks, bowling greens, clipped yew hedges and topiary, which would combine with "cottage garden" elements in the Arts and Crafts gardens of 1890–1915.
  The German architect and critic Hermann Muthesius said that "he formed the first bridge between the architects' camp and that of handicraft proper".
context_section_description: Sedding's buildings include the London churches of St Augustine of Canterbury, Highgate, London N6 (1884, completed by others), Our Most Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell (1887; in Italianate style), St Peter's Church, Ealing (1889) and Holy Trinity Sloane Street (begun in 1888 and completed by his pupil Henry Wilson), which Sir John Betjeman described as "the cathedral of the Arts and Crafts Movement", although much of the decoration Sedding intended was not carried out.
  His  other churches include St Clement's, Boscombe, Dorset (1871–73), and those at Holbeton and Ermington in Devon, and St Elwyn's (1886–88) at Hayle in Cornwall. At All Saints' Church, Falmouth (1887–90), he unconventionally combined tall round-arched arcades with Gothic windows. He also gained a reputation in the West Country as a skilled repairer of old churches. His most notable work in the Bristol area is the so-called "House of Charity" (1890–5), with picturesque detailing. He added a new vestry to St Mary's Church, Stamford, in 1890, and was the architect of St Edward's Church in the Hampshire village of Netley Abbey and the 1870 Church of St Martin, Marple, Stockport.
  He carried out restorations at St. Levan's Church, St. Levan and St John's Church, West Wickham, Kent; also St Mary's Church, Stogumber, Somerset in 1872–75.
  He is noted for his many designs for church furnishings and plate, and contributed rich decorative features to numerous churches, such as screens at Axbridge, Somerset (1888) (with Art Nouveau-style detailing to the arches and lettering), and a reredos at St Saviour's, Walcot, Bath.
  With Henry Wilson (who completed the work on Sedding's death), he was commissioned by 6th Duke of Portland to create an extension to Welbeck Abbey to link the old building with the Riding School. He was also commissioned to build a Chapel, which was also completed by Wilson.  Both buildings contain very fine Arts and Crafts design features including a St George and the Dragon moulding over the fireplace with the tail forming a frieze around the room and magnificent bronze door to the chapel and a particularly fine font and altar table.
caption: Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market
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