ST THOMAS’S CHURCH TRIPTYCH / CHERUBS ABOVE THE SEA.

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  • Title(s): St. Thomas’s Church triptych (this web site); Cherubs above the Sea (Mallam’s, 2007).
  • Description: Three panels with winged cherubic heads with sea below and surrounded by clouds. Four heads on the central panel, two each on the side panels.
  • Media: “oils on panel” (Mallam’s, 2007).
  • Dimensions: “oils on panel, “21” x 16 1/2″ (x1) and 21″ x 13″ (x2)” (Mallam’s, 2007).
  • Signature/date/other text: none mentioned or visible in online images (Mallam’s, 2007).
  • History:
    • 1978 – Removed from St Thomas Church, Ardwick Green, Manchester (Mallam’s, 2007). [St. Thomas Church was decommissioned 1978 and has since been redeveloped for other uses.]
    • 2007 – Auctioned Mallam’s, Oxford, 8 Jun, lot 289, 53.3 x 106.7 cm, “Cherubs above the Sea, a triptych, oils on panel / 21″ x 16 1/2″ (x1) and 21″ x 13″ (x2). Provenance: removed from St. Thomas Church Ardwick Green, Manchester, when the church closed in 1978”, sold: £2,800.
  • Location: ?

Removed from St Thomas Church, Ardwick Green, Manchester, when the church was decommissioned in 1978. The site has since been redeveloped. The image below from 1976 shows the tryptich in place on the front of the alter.

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Page last updated 8 May 2025.