Tindall Mosaic

The side chapel in the south transept of the Church was converted with the funds provided by a member, Miss Elizabeth Donaldson, and dedicated in memory of her mother.

At the same time, Professor Wiiliam S Tindal, an elder in the Grange Church and Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at New College, gifted the striking mosaic on the east wall of the side chapel in memory of his wife.

The Communion Table was also donated by Professor Tindal.

The mosaic was designed by Ray Howard Jones and created by Ernest de Rosa, and has the theme of the Te Deum Laudamus - We Praise Thee, O God. 

Over one million pieces of tessera make up the mosaic and it took about a year to complete the design. The work to create the mosaic from the drawings took a further two months to complete before installation in the church and the dedication of the side chapel and mosaic in May 1965.

The mosaic is reputed to be one of the most intricate of its kind in the UK.  A leaflet giving an explanation of the imagery used in the mosaic is available in the side chapel.

In late 2009 we learned that another mosaic by Ray Howard Jones on the Western Mail building in Cardiff was lost when the building was demolished.  It and the Tindall Mosaic are to the subject of an illustrated article in Andamento, the journal of the British Association for Modern Mosaic.

(Andamento is the visual flow and direction within a mosaic produced by the placement of rows of tesserae.)