Sir John Ninian Comper (10 June 1864 – 22 December 1960) was a Scottish architect, one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects. His work almost...
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monoplane racer. Nicholas Comper was born in Lambeth, London, England, the son of church architect Sir John Ninian Comper. After leaving Dulwich College...
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(1897–1939), English aviator and aircraft designer Ninian Comper (1864–1960), Scottish architect Château de Comper, castle located in Paimpont forest (formerly...
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the Blessed Sacrament was reordered between 1935 and 1939 by Sir Ninian Comper. Comper's work in the chapel included the construction of a gilded baldacchino...
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All Saints Pastoral Centre (section Comper Chapel)
by Leonard Stokes in 1899 and built in 1901 with a chapel added by Ninian Comper. It was Grade II* listed in 1972. The complex was acquired by the Roman...
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Regent's Park, off Baker Street. The present church was designed by Ninian Comper and is a Grade II* listed building. The parish was formed by the efforts...
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preparation for Holy Orders. St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth was consecrated on Tuesday 10 December 1850, and the following day, Comper was ordained deacon in the...
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Giles as "a treasure-house of Comper work", referring to the restoration carried out on the church by Sir Ninian Comper between 1908 and 1910. The church...
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Alexandra Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff. The memorial was designed by Sir Ninian Comper and unveiled on 12 June 1928 by the Prince of Wales. The memorial commemorates...
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St Peter-in-Ely (section The Comper screen)
Eamer Kempe and there is a wooden screen and rood loft designed by Sir Ninian Comper. The building opened for worship in 1890 with the intention of ministering...
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determined to construct a new building and they commissioned Ninian Comper to undertake the task. Comper designed a completely new church to an unusual plan,...
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Since the 19th century, new stained glass, designed by artists such as Ninian Comper (on the north side of the nave) and Hugh Easton and Alan Younger (in...
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works of Sir Ninian Comper. This was dedicated in 1921 as a war memorial, though the gilding was not finished until 1934. Other works by Comper are the serene...
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fireplace in the centre of the floor. The wooden panelling was designed by Ninian Comper and was erected in 1911 in place of some previous 19th-century Gothic...
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architects and artists, including Street, George Frederick Bodley, Ninian Comper, Arthur Blomfield and Edward Burne-Jones, with stained-glass windows...
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west end. The church has a marble reredos and stained glass windows by Ninian Comper. St Catherine's became a separate parish in 1895, but in the 20th Century...
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curtains, were revived in some new or refitted Anglo-Catholic churches by Ninian Comper and others around 1900. In earlier periods the curtains were closed...
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screen and the east windows of the chancel and transepts are by Sir Ninian Comper and Squire Stott. In the north transept are murals of the Annunciation...
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Dec 1898) in the nave is by Sir John Ninian Comper and dates from 1905. The east window (1896), is also by Comper, a memorial to a former vicar, the Revd...
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the church. Dating from the early 20th century, they were the work of Ninian Comper. One of the more notable surviving elements is the curious 19th-century...
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Salviati mosaics, sculptures by Thomas Earp, a later crypt chapel by Ninian Comper, and a War Memorial by Martin Travers. The painted ceiling of the nave...
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and Pusey House was established as his memorial. The window is by Sir Ninian Comper and contains figures of Old Testament prophets, and fathers of the Church...
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unveiled in Westminster Abbey. The window is one of a series designed by Ninian Comper dedicated to the memory of eminent engineers. He is also commemorated...
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significant interior stone decoration and a stained glass window by Ninian Comper, who lived in the area. Upper Norwood Library in Westow Hill, the only...
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Bodley), and the two smaller chapels – the Founders Chapel, and the Ninian Comper designed House Chapel. St John's Church (and sometimes also the college...
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Rugby School and at the Slade School of Art and then articled to Sir Ninian Comper. His glass work is among the finest of the first half of the 20th century...
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designed by Comper's son, Ninian Comper. A separate church hall was built in 1908 by the architect George Irvine, and in the same year, Ninian Comper installed...
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Rennie Mackintosh. St Cyprian's, Clarence Gate, London, designed by Ninian Comper. St Ignatius Church, Stamford Hill, London, designed by Benedict Williamson...
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it was the first church designed by the late Victorian architect Sir Ninian Comper. It is situated on the busy junction of Grange Road and the High Street...
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1937) 1863 – Louis Couperus, Dutch author and poet (d. 1923) 1864 – Ninian Comper, Scottish architect (d. 1960) 1865 – Frederick Cook, American physician...
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