St George’s Chapel Interior, Perth, Western Australia
Anglican, Anglo-Saxon, armour, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Talbot Hobbs, lancet window, missionary, Perth, pointed arch, Archbishop Riley, St Aiden, St Augustine, St Boniface, St George, St George’s Chapel, St George’s College, stained glass, sword, tracery, University of Western Australia, WA, Western Australia.
<p>St George’s Anglican Chapel is the chapel of St George’s College, a residential college for students attending The University of Western Australia in Perth. The foundation stone of the chapel was laid in 1928 by Archbishop Riley, and the chapel was designed by Sir Talbot Hobbs. Unusually, the red brick chapel is built north-south rather than east-west like most churches. St George’s Chapel is built in the Gothic Revival style. It features stained glass windows at the north and south ends. The large west window above the entrance includes five lancet windows and the three central windows are devoted to medieval Anglo-Saxon saints of England: St Aiden of Lindisfarne (d. 651) who undertook missionary work in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria and established the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne; St Augustine (d. 604), the first Archbishop of Canterbury who led the mission to convert the Anglo-Saxons sent by Pope Gregory the Great; and St Boniface (d. 754), an Anglo-Saxon missionary who worked in Germany and Frisia. The east window includes St George wearing armour and carrying a sword to the right of Jesus in the centre (St Paul also carries a sword and is on Jesus’ left).</p>
<p>For the exterior of the chapel see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1019" target="_self">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/1019</a></p>
<p>For St George’s College see <a href="http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/83" target="_self">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/83</a></p>
Lynch, Andrew
August 17, 2012
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The Wolf Letters Website
Anglo-Saxon, St Boniface, literature, missionary, novel, Perth, promotion, Will Schaefer, University of Western Australia, UWA, WA, Western Australia, Winfrith, The Wolf Letters
<p>Will Schaefer’s novel ‘The Wolf Letters’ is a murder-mystery set in England in 1936, but the murders relate to events in the eighth century. An historian investigates. The novel was inspired by the life of the Anglo-Saxon missionary Winfrith/St Boniface. Amongst information directly related to the novel, the associated website includes recommendations for those wanting to read Anglo-Saxon literature and invites people to contact the author, who has an Honours degree in History from UWA, about Anglo-Saxon literature. The website also includes photographs of some of the creative publicity used to advertise the book, including a ‘medieval marathon’, by bicycle, around the Swan River with the author dressed as a warrior-monk being chased by four devils!</p>
<p>The Anglo-Saxon Winfrith/St Boniface is often referred to as the Apostle of the Germans and was the first archbishop of Mainz. He was killed trying to convert the Frisians in 754 or 755. </p>
<p>For more on The Wolf Letters see <a href="http://www.whiteknights.com.au/" target="_blank">http://www.whiteknights.com.au</a>.</p>
Schaefer, Will
<a href="http://www.whiteknights.com.au/" target="_blank">http://www.whiteknights.com.au</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.whiteknights.com.au/" target="_blank">http://www.whiteknights.com.au</a>.
21 September 2011
Will Schaefer
Weblink
English
The Wolf Letters, by Will Schaefer
Abbess, battle, Brother Duggo, Claude Pownall, Detective Sergeant Aage Nielsen, Dr Deborah Caraman, Eulalia, Father Walter Roby, fiction, George Haye, historical fiction, Kenneth Tiernan, letters, medieval characters, medieval setting, medievalism, medievalist fiction, monk, murder, mystery, novel, nunnery Ohthere, policeman, soldier, St Boniface, St Matthew’s College, thriller, war, Winfrith, wolf
The Wolf Letters, released in May 2011, is a debut historical thriller from Perth novelist Will Schaefer. The plot is a mystery that revolves around a stolen historical artefact (a wolf carved in jet) and two eighth-century letters found at the scene of a murder in Southern England, 1936. The setting for the novel oscillates between 1936 and the eighth century. According to the author, the story was inspired ‘by the real-life adventures of Winfrith, the seventh/eighth century Englishman better known as St Boniface’.
Schaefer, William
www.wolfletters.com
Hybrid Publishers
May 2011
Hybrid Publishers
Hyperlink
English