Let there be light

After months of planning, a new inner door was fitted to the lower Bartholomew Room on 2 November 2006. This one is of plate glass, to open up the space to visitors yet keep out the cold.
It arrived just in time for the colder weather and should be much appreciated at future events, beginning with the winter exhibition of Eynsham Arts Group.

Web: Bartholomew Room

Door style and design required planning consent, as the Bartholomew Room is a Grade II listed building. More listed buildings HERE.
The final choice features an etched central cross in a leaf-like (“foliate”) style, which has been used by the Eynsham Roundabout since 1995; by the Medical Centre since 1996; and as the centre of a badge for the Abbey Millennium in 2005.

The 'Eynsham Cross' is based on JC Buckler's illustration of a carved tomb lid lying beside a mediaeval altar tomb in St Leonard’s churchyard.
For more information see the Eynsham Record issue 23, 2006 - available from the Editor Brian Atkins:

Tel: 01865 881677
Email: brian@fbatkins.free-online.co.uk

From source to design ...

Other design elements - a barley sugar twist border and corner roses - were taken from the stone cross in the Square outside. The cross is of medieval origin, though the shaft and cross are modern replicas (1987).

... to completion

Come and see the rest for yourself! Glass is exceedingly hard to photograph.

Simon from Oxford Glass hands over the keys. The new door was commissioned by Eynsham Parish Council at a total cost of 57 pence per household.

Eynsham Online

is an Eynsham Parish Council initiative

Email: eynsham-online@hotmail.co.uk
Web: www.eynsham.org.uk