For the past three months I've had a desk at The Design Chapel. It's one of the little cemetery chapels in Southampton Old Cemetery, converted for office use, with an upper floor installed.
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| My desk is behind those shelves, by the perpendicular piping. |
Over the past week I've made daily sketches of the inside, picking views where the office furniture contrasts with the Victorian gothic walls.
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| Looking up from my desk to the dove window. |
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| Upstairs, by the stained glass window. |
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| The altar of printing. |
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| The kitchen, built against the arches. |
At this time of year, the owls are hooting and screeching outside by the end of the working day. In Summer there are bats: I don't know if they make use of the chapel, but it does have a little belfry.
The outside of the chapel is rich with detail, so I'll make a study of its Romanesque columns and medieval-y gargoyles before long.
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