| Description | The frontal for the high altar was designed by Messrs Heaton and Baker, Garrick Street, London, and was executed by the sisters of St Peter's Kilburn in 1895. It was purchased for the cathedral with money collected by Mrs Rawlinson, wife of Canon Rawlinson. Some of the sisters who embroidered the frontal studied in Bruges before starting their work. St Peter's Kilburne was bombed in 1944 and the convent moved to Maybury Hill, Working. The cartoons were taken there. The cartoons are drawn and part-painted on paper backed with linen and are the same size as the embroidery. They depict: centre panel: Our Lord in Glory; left-hand outer panel: 3 saints, St Gregory and a bishop standing, with a female saint kneeling; left-hand inner panel, 3 angels, 2 kneeling swinging censers, one standing; right-hand inner panel: 3 angels, 2 standing, one playing a harp and the other a lute, one kneeling, swinging a censer; right-hand outer panel: 3 saints, 2 standing, St Augustine and a bishop, with a female saint kneeling. |