John Piper [St Mary le Port, Bristol] 1940

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◧ Artist: John Piper (1903-1992) 
◧ Country: Great Britain
◧ Title: [St Mary le Port, Bristol]      
◧ Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on plywood
◧ Painting Size: 767  × 636 cm (30 1/4" x 25")

◧ Museum: Tate Britain, London

◧ County of Stamp Issue: Great Britain
◧ Date of Issue: August 12, 1968
◧ Face Value: 1/6 British Shilling


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St Mary le Port is said to have been founded in Saxon times. The church was rebuilt and enlarged between the 11th and 16th centuries.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries the church was a very popular centre of evangelical, Protestant, and Calvinist teaching within Anglicanism.

The church was bombed in the Second World War on 24 November 1940 during the Bristol Blitz. John Piper painted an evocative picture of the bombed St Mary le Port. (excerpt from Wikipedia)
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