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Consultancy & Design

Below is a selection of some of the churches and chapels for which Aidan Hart Icons has acted as consultant and designer, and usually also maker of works:

  • The Parish of St Ephraim, Cambridge, 2017 (design folding ironwork icon screen)
  • St Chad’s Oratory, Manchester 2017 (advise on decoration of the church, design fresco scheme for the north chapel)
  • Private chapel, London, 2015-2016 (advise on iconography, interior design and lighting, design and make three mosaics)
  • The Russian Cathedral of the Dormition, London, 2016 (advise on lighting and furnishings for a major renovation, design and have made: a choros for the altar; eight icon cases; brass panels; radiator cover)
  • The Russian Orthodox Church of St Nicholas, Amsterdam, 2010
    (create an overall design, design and make stone icon screen, advise on marbling columns and lighting, design icon thrones)
  • St Urban’s Catholic Church, Leeds, 2010, ongoing
    (design and create secco wall paintings, large crucifix, panel icons for side chapels)
  • Chapel of Shrewsbury Schools, Shrewsbury, U.K., 2007
    (make icons, paint six frescoes in niches)
  • Roman Catholic priest’s private chapel, Leeds, 2005
    (icon screen and its icons, tabernacle for reserved sacrament, brass bejewelled seven lamped cross)
  • The chapel of The Protecting Veil, Evia, Greece, 2003 (frescoes, stone icon stands, wrought iron icon stands)
  • Private chapel for HRH The Prince of Wales, 2004
    (fresco apse, numerous panel icons, secco vine border designs)
  • The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Fathers, Shrewsbury, U.K., 1996, 1997
    (design and make oak icon screen and all its icons, carve stone altar table, design balustrades, restore medieval door)
  • The chapel of The Monastery of Saints Anthony and Cuthbert, Shropshire, U.K., 1996
    (conversion from a barn into chapel, frescoes painted, wooden mosaic floor designed and made, oak icon screen and icons, wooden ceiling)
  • The Holy Monastery of Iviron, Mount Athos, Greece, 1993-1994
    (design and carve casing for the Portaitissa icon, design and make silver lamps, censer boats, reliquaries, design large embroidery surround for the Portaitissa icon)
  • The Orthodox Church of the Ascension, Rugby, U.K., 1992
    (design and make wooden icon screen, design and make nave/narthex screen, design and make two revolving choir stands)
  • St John of Kronstadt Church, Bath, U.K 1984-6, 1992
    (icon screen, wooden crosses, furniture, candle stands, reliquaries).