Completed and installed new Bronze Insert into the Font. The aspiration was to visually reflect the Cathedral’s height in its bowl of water.
The bronze casting of the font insert picked up the style, colouring and shell motif of the Pilgrim Porch. It also contained an inscription in contrasting raised text - ‘For by one spirit we are all baptised into one body’. After much testing and experimentation with the pump system - the finished Font is complete.
“The west entrance ordering of Chester Cathedral opens one of the UK’s great cathedral spaces to the city.
This allows the Cathedral’s great oak west doors to be opened whereas previously the Cathedral appeared closed, so that now, the Cathedral appears welcoming to those on Town Hall Square.”
Chester Cathedral received a prestigious regional award for the reordering of the Cathedral’s west end which has opened up the building to the city it serves.