Lightwell
Name/Title
Lightwell
Date Made
2007
Medium and Materials
Glass and stone
Maker and Maker Role
Castings, Eichenberger
Public Description (About this object)
The lightwell to the lower crypt of St Martin in the Fields, etched around the top is a poem by the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion (2006), with lettering by Tom Perkins (2007), in memory of Natalie Skilbeck (1985-2004). The letters were cast in polished stainless steel by Eichenberger Castings in Switzerland.
Inscription and Marks
Engraved around the top of the lightwell: Your stepping inwards from the air to earth Winds round itself to meet the open sky So vanishing becomes a second birth. Fare well. Return. Fare well. Return again. Here home and elsewhere share one mystery. Here love and conscience sing the same refrain. Here time leaps up. And strikes eternity.
Object number
SMITF.H.22