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Ninian Comper
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Early life
Comper was born in Aberdeen in 1864, the eldest son and fourth of the seven children of Ellen ({{nee|Taylor}}) and John Comper, Rector of St John's, Aberdeen (and later St Margaret of Scotland) in the Scottish Episcopal Church.{{sfn|Buckley|1994|p=?}}{{sfn|Symondson|1988b|p=?}} The Comper family were of Norman origin and settled as yeoman farmers in Pulborough, Sussex at the Norman Conquest; nevertheless, Comper's father upheld a romantic notion that the family were descended from noble Huguenots.{{sfn|Symondson|Bucknall|2006|p=?}} Comper's father moved from Sussex to Scotland as a young man in search of work as a schoolmaster with a view to becoming a priest. His lack of a university degree prevented him from taking holy orders in the Church of England, so he was ordained as a priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church.{{sfn|Symondson|Bucknall|2006|p=?}} John Comper became a significant figure within the Scottish Church, remembered for his ministry in the slums of Aberdeen and as an important figure in the northern High Church movement.WEB,weblink John Comper, Scottish Episcopal Church, 29 December 2022, Comper was educated at Kingston College, Aberdeen, Glenalmond School in Perthshire and studied drawing for a year at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford before moving to London to serve articles with Charles Eamer Kempe, and in 1883 to George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner. Fellow Scot William Bucknall took him into his London partnership in 1888.WEB,weblink Bucknall & Comper, Dictionary of Scottish Architects, 29 December 2022,Personal life
Bucknall and Comper remained in partnership until 1905.WEB,weblink Sir Ninian Comper, Dictionary of Scottish Architects, 29 December 2022, Ninian married Grace Bucknall in 1890. They had six children. The eldest, John-Baptiste Sebastian Comper (1891-1979), became an architect, designing many churches for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton.WEB,weblink Sebastian Comper, Historic Churches of Buckinghamshire, 29 December 2022, WEB,weblink High Wycombe - St Augustine's, Historic England, 29 December 2022, From 1912, Comper and his wife lived in London at The Priory, Beulah Hill, a house designed by Decimus Burton (1800â81), where he entertained friends such as John Betjeman. He had a studio nearby at Knights Hill, close to the cemetery at West Norwood. After the studio was destroyed in the Second World War, it was relocated to his garden, in a building previously used by his son, Nicholas Comper (1897â1939), to design aircraft.WEB,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120327034153weblink">weblink 27 March 2012,weblink Sir Ninian Comper in Norwood, The Norwood Society, Stephen Arthur, Bucknall,Career
After a number of restorations and embellishments of existing buildings, Comper's first completed commission for an entirely new church was St Cyprian's, Clarence Gate, London{{National Heritage List for England|num=1237476|desc=Church of St Cyprian, Clarence Gate|grade=II*|access-date=29 December 2022}} which sought to put into practice the precepts of the Alcuin Club, with whose liturgical views he remained closely identified. The warm reception afforded to St Cyprian's rapidly led to an increase in commissions. These included a range of windows in the north wall of the nave of Westminster Abbey; a baldacchino/ciborium, high altar and east window in memory of the dead of the Great War at St Peter's Church, Huddersfield;WEB,weblink Huddersfield Parish Church - Building history, 13 May 2010, Church of England, 29 December 2022, the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wellingborough;{{NHLE|num= 1371787 |desc= Church of St Mary the Virgin |grade=I |access-date=29 December 2022}} St Michael & All Angels, Inverness;WEB,weblink St Michael and All Angels, 24 September 2017, Scottish Churches Trust, 29 December 2022, the Lady Chapel at Downside Abbey, Somerset;{{NHLE|desc=Abbey Church of St Gregory The Great|num=1058633|grade=I|access-date=29 December 2022}} the ciborium and House Chapel extension for the Society of St John the Evangelist in Oxford (now St Stephen's House, Oxford);{{NHLE|num=1229802|desc=St Stephen House and Attached Cloisters|grade=II|access-date = 29 December 2022}} the Lady Chapel at St Matthew's, Westminster;WEB,weblink St Matthew Westminster, Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks, 29 December 2022, the Lady Chapel and gilded paintings in the chancel of All Saints, Margaret Street;WEB,weblink Ninian, Comper, A Dim Religious Light: The Atmosphere of a Church, Institute for Sacred Architecture, 29 December 2022, and St Martin's Chapel (1913) at Chailey Heritage School, with his son Sebastian.WEB, ST MARTINS CHAPEL, OLD HERITAGE, HERITAGE CRAFTS SCHOOL,weblink Historic England, 10 July 2023, He also designed the main building for infants for St Mary & St John School on Hertford Street in Oxford, now the Comper Foundation Stage School.{{NHLE|num=1047076|desc=Comper Foundation Stage School|grade=II|access-date=29 December 2022}} Comper also completely restored and partially redesigned the church at Church of St Giles, Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, which had suffered near total destruction following a fire in 1908.{{NHLE|num=1120134|desc=Church of St Giles|grade=I|access-date=29 December 2022}} File:ComperScreenWymondham.JPG|thumb|Reredos in Wymondham AbbeyWymondham AbbeyComper is noted for continuing the tradition of designing altars in a medieval fashion, known as the 'English altar', which was first re-introduced by A. W. Pugin. An 'English altar' is an altar surrounded by riddel posts, from which riddel curtains hang, contemporary creations of which sometimes include a gradine (ledge), and despite its name, it is found in not just Medieval England, but other parts of Europe as well, including France and Italy. Comper designed a number of remarkable altar screens (reredos), inspired by medieval originals. Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, has one example.{{sfn|Pevsner|Wilson|2002|p=797}} He was capable of innovative planning; his Church of St Mary-in-the-Baum, Rochdale responds to a restricted urban site by placing the "sensationally high"{{sfn|Hartwell|Hyde|Pevsner|2004|p=592}} nave on the well-lit southern side of the building, with the aisle on the north side.{{NHLE|num=1025294|desc=Church of St Mary-in-the-Baum, St Mary's Gate, Rochdale|grade=I|access-date=30 December 2021}}References
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{{commons category|Ninian Comper}}- WEB,weblink Sir J. Ninian Comper and the Sisters of Bethany, Shawn Tribe, 22 July 2013,
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