Talk:List of works by Nathaniel Hitch

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Was not able to give a citation for this information on Beverley Minster which came from an archivist at the Minster. Rather than delete the information thought I would keep on this page.

Beverley Minster
The original reredos and altar screen at Beverley Minster was erected in the reign of Edward III between circa 1320-1340. At the time of the dissolution of the Beverley College of Secular Canons in 1547 the eastern face of the screen remained nearly as it was when built but the statuary on the western front was demolished and much of the carving mutilated. All that remained was covered over with plaster upon which was painted the Commandments, the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed. In 1825-6 the reredos was rebuilt by Mr. Comins, the master mason, but this reconstruction fell short of filling the 12 niches and decorating the 36 panels. In 1897 and to John Loughborough Pearson’s designs, Hitch carved twelve statues for the screen, this due to the generosity of Canon Nolloth who put up the required funds. Nolloth also funded completion of the thirty six panels which were filled by opus sectile mosaic.

The twelve additional statues, carved from Corsham stone, are:
 * King Lucius who had founded the church of Beverley in the year 187. In Hitch’s figure he wears crown and armour and holds in his hand a model of an early church.
 * St Hilda, Abbess of Whitby at the time St John of Beverley was living in the monastery.
 * St John of Beverley who was consecrated Bishop of Hexham in 687. In the year 718 he retired to Beverley where he had rebuilt the Church and died in 721.}
 * Brithunus who was a disciple of St. John and the first Abbot of Beverley.
 * The Venerable Bede, disciple and biographer of St. John of Beverley by whom he was ordained deacon and priest.
 * King Athelstan who holds in one hand the dagger which he left as a pledge on the Beverley Altar.
 * Eborius the first recorded Bishop of York in the year 314.
 * St Gregory the Great. He is shown with a dove whispering into his ear: the emblem of inspiration.
 * St. Augustine of Canterbury.
 * St Ailred. Born at Hexham in the year 1110 he became Abbot of Rievaulx and one of the Saints of the Cistercian Order.
 * Ethelberga, a Christian Princess of Kent.
 * Eadwine, King of Northumbria.

Hitch also carried out sixteen for the Beverley Minster organ screen which was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, made by James Elwell of Beverley, and completed in 1885. Hitch’s figures include King David with a harp, Jubal, Miriam, St Ambrose and an angel with a hurdy-gurdy.

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