Gabriel Pippet (1880 in

Solihull Solihull (, or ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in West Midlands County, England. The town had a population of 126,577 at the 2021 Census. Solihull is situated on the River Blyth ...

– 1962) was an

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artist. As well as being was an artist, he was known as an illustrator and a

wood carver Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation ...

. Pippet's work was influenced by Pre-Raphaelites, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and medieval manuscript design. Pippet is buried in

Droitwich Droitwich Spa (often abbreviated to Droitwich ) is an historic spa town in the Wychavon district in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe. It is located approximately south-west of Birmingham and north-east of Worcester. The ...

next to the Church of the Sacred Heart, whose

mosaic A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly pop ...

s he designed.

Work

Gabriel Pippet's art and designs decorated several churches and chapels in its various forms. Amongst these are: * the

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, where Pippet's designs decorated Sacred Heart Chapel (before 1907) * St Mary's Church,

Douai Abbey Douai Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey at Upper Woolhampton, near Thatcham, in the English county of Berkshire, situated within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth. Monks from the monastery of St. Edmund's, in Douai, France, came to Woolhampton ...

, Berkshire, scenes from the life of St Benedict as recorded in St Gregory's Dialogues (1913) *

The Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria The Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria is a Catholic church situated in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, England, noted for its remarkable mosaics. Walter Loveridge Hodgkinson was a main benefactor of the church. The archit ...

, where Pippet designed the images to be depicted in mosaics by Maurice Josey (1922-1934). Pippet also created wood carvings for the church. At one point Pippet lived at

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the home of Monsignor

Robert Hugh Benson Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican priest, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein the next year. He ...

, and he and Pippet worked together on wood carving and panelling. Pippet used wood-cuts to illustrate Benson's books.

Bibliography (Illustrated by Gabriel Pippet)

''A Child's Rule of Life''
by

, digitized by Richard Mammana * ''Old Testament Rhymes'' by

* ''Still More Old Rhymes with New Tunes'' by

Richard Runciman Terry Sir Richard Runciman Terry (3 January 1864 – 18 April 1938) was an English organist, choir director and musicologist. He is noted for his pioneering revival of Tudor liturgical music. Early years Richard Terry was born in 1864 in Ellington, ...

* ''Traffic and Theatre Rhymes'' by

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. * ''Fifteen Roses: Being Our Lady's Rosary in Verse'' by Hamilton Moore. * ''The Stations of the Cross'' by

Richard Rolle Richard Rolle ( – 30 September 1349) was an English hermit, mystic, and religious writer. He is also known as Richard Rolle of Hampole or de Hampole, since at the end of his life he lived near a Cistercian nunnery in Hampole, now in Sou ...

, 1917. *The Imitation of Christ,Thomas à Kempis

External links

The Church of the Sacred Heart and St Catherine of Alexandria mosaics, Droitwich

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pippet, Gabriel 1880 births 1962 deaths Droitwich Spa English artists People from Solihull