Burslem Pantocrator

This extraordinary mural showing ‘Christ Pantocrator’ looks at first sight like it could be a mosaic some 1000 years old, and from a Byzantine church.
In fact, it was painted in the 1930s by a young woman who had family here in Staffordshire at the time.

It is amazing to walk into St Joseph’s Church in Burslem (which has a pretty ugly exterior to tell the truth) – and suddenly see this huge dome over the altar holding this image in its bowl.
Moira Forsyth had a famous painter father (Gordon Forsyth), but she went on to become pretty special herself.

A good image for Easter Day!

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