St Edward's Chronicle October 2016

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Sandham Memorial Chapel By Charlotte Schofield In June Lower Sixth art historians visited the National Trust’s Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere, Hampshire. The tiny chapel, built in memory of a WWI soldier, Henry Sandham, is filled with striking wall paintings by one of Britain’s most extraordinary artists. Stanley Spencer served in the WWI Medical Corps in Macedonia. He believed that God could be found in everyday activities and these images celebrate the daily routines of a soldier’s life – bed making, ablutions, filling drinking bottles from a fountain. They culminate in the glorious ‘Resurrection of the Soldiers’ which fills the entire wall behind the altar and in which the soldiers he buried rise up from their graves, dust themselves down and hand their crosses to Christ. ‘I had buried so many people and saw so many dead that I felt that death could not be the end of everything.’

The Beacon

No Laughing Matter Fourth Former Helena Beccle ( Dragon ) won first prize at the Oxford German Olympiad last term. The task was to create and illustrate a short joke in German with the overall topic for the competition being ‘German Humour – no laughing matter’. The presentation evening took place in the Divinity School, part of Oxford University’s Bodleian Library. Entries came from all over the country and required pupils between the ages of 11 and 18 to research traditions of comedy and humour in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The competition was run by the Oxford German Network and was supported by the Association for Language Learning, Routes into Languages, the German Embassy and Oxford University Press.

Bernard Kay OSE won the top prize on his Architecture course at Bath University with this striking design for an off-shore Museum of Navigation