Designs [4] by Stephen Cox for the head reredos, including St Paul in prison, and one in 12 sections showing the acts of St Paul. Designed for St Paul's Church, Harringay, London, 1990. Pencil and watercolour.

Designs [4 on 1 sheet] for the reredos, two illustrating St Paul in prison, one in twelve sections showing the acts of St Paul, and another showing the conversion of Saul and the martyrdom of St Paul. Inscribed in pencil 'where words so secret that human lips may not repeat them' and 'Saul, Saul why do you persecute me?' [Acts IX. 4].

The old church of St Paul burnt down on Ash Wednesday, 1984 and Father Seeley, the parish priest, wanted a completely new church in a modern idiom. It was rebuilt in a post-modern style by Peter Inskip and Peter Jenkins, completed in 1993. Stephen Cox was commissioned to design the reredos, altar, font, and the stations of the cross. The initial idea for the reredos depicting St Paul was replaced by a view of the crucifixion from behind, over a map of the Mediterranean world showing St Paul's travels. The altar was made out of porphyry left over from the Foreign Office commission and the reredos from travertine, itself formed of fossilised carapaces of sea creatures, a symbolic link with the skull of Golgotha. The drawings track the design and manufacturing process which took place in Egypt. The worked-up photocopies show the reredos in the setting of the church.

E.343-1994