However, the sequence of photos below sent by a reader shows something a bit similar, if more official, and quite momentous from an art-historical view: the un-wreckovation of the high altar in St. Stephen's Chapel at the Anglican Cowley Fathers' complex in Oxford, a space designed by Bodley with a ciborium by Comper. We featured this interior some time back, incidentally. The end result is much closer to Comper's original vision. It also shows how a freestanding altar and baldachin may be used within the context of ad orientem liturgy, as well as being a further commentary on truly noble simplicity in architecture and church paraments. Our correspondent notes this all happened during his lunch break. It took a mere sixty minutes to architecturally restore the sacred here. Sometimes that little push is all that is necessary.
