The Sermon on the Mount (central panel)
Designer: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Maker: Morris & Co.
1864
On the east side of the (former) Christ Church, Albany Street, London (now St George's Cathedral, an Antiochian Orthodox Church)
Installed when the church was being altered and decorated by William Butterfield. The poet Christina Rossetti, the artist's sister, lived in the neighbourhood (from 1854 at 45 Upper Albany Street, and then in Euston Square and finally in Torrington Square) and used to worship here. [Commentary continues below.]
Photograph by Colin Price. Text and formatting by Jacqueline Banerjee.