This conference, sponsored by the Bell-Rowell Memorial Fund, administered by the Chapter of Chichester Cathedral, and in honour of the late Bishop Geoffrey Rowell (1943-2017) a series of speakers explored the connections between beauty and faith.
After-dinner speech
by Edward Dowler
Dean of Chichester
Introductory remarks Beauty and Faith
by Emma Trimble
Writer and broadcaster
Visual Art
by Madeleine Emerald Thiele
Director and founder of Visual Theology
Architecture
by Harry Spain
Architectural historian
Pastoral
by Damien Mason
Vicar of St Mary, Brookfield, London
Summary and Reflection
by Ben Quash
Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge
Music
by Charles Harrison
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Chichester
Poetry
by Bijan Omrani
Historian and churchwarden
Liturgical Language
by Bradley Smith
Chairman of the Prayer Book Society
Pastoral
by Fergus Butler-Gallie
Vicar of Charlbury, Oxfordshire
Summary and Reflection
by Madeline Grant
Journalist
A generous grant from the Prayer Book Society has enabled us to film the talks.