Bradford Central Mosque - Darfield Street
For
the past year Ossett Mouldings Limited have been very happy to work on a
very interesting, frankly fabulous Mosque in central Bradford.
Our work is presently confined to the interior of this newly built place
of worship. Quite honestly the design is, in my view outstanding. A
credit to both the Architect (Mr. Neil Waghorne) and the client mosque
for having the vision to permit / indulge him these super designs.
We're
working our way down from the very high, (approximately 12 metres)
central dome. The very high, central "bulb" and pendulous features were
formed by others, but don't they look absolutely lovely? What you may
not notice from these photos is the very subtle colour changes. This
will be even more spectacular when the central chandelier is installed
and sets off the inbuilt "cats eyes".
Once below these fine features, our decorative plaster work begins. But
first, please have a look at these twelve absolutely gorgeous stained
glass windows - arn't they nice? The first, but minor item of our work
you'll see is the twelve quite fine window surrounds.
Next
you'll see our twenty five metre circumference "string course" arched
moulding. This was in fact, quite deceptively difficult to form, let
alone make and install. Anyhow, it got done and quite nicely too!.
Below this some others formed a lighting trough. To this trough we
mounted a curved top and bottom moulding, also some 32 paterae (60mm
diameter flowers).
The
next item will be a very large, very ornate cornice based loosely on our
standard cornice design "Alhambra" - pictured here on the right. This
will however be some five times larger and very much more complex. The
geometry on this area will be particularly difficult. Watch this space
for details as they come to hand - say mid January 2005.
Hopefully there will be very much more for our company to do on this
fine structure. We have some idea, but not the complete picture of what
is to do and will be very happy to show you here when details - or
better still when the actual work occurs.
Sadly, it now seems that, by our choice we will be very unlikely to work
here again. This is, in my personal view a poor outcome for the Mosque
and our company.
Several years after I wrote the above, I now discover Mr. Waghorne died
quite suddenly and unexpectantly. On a personal level I miss this man,
the man who truthfully understood (and enjoyed) culture, design and
religion other than the West Riding of his younger life.
I'll miss this man. I bet I'm not the only one!
