‘NINIAN COMPER AT PUSEY HOUSE’ HARRY SPAIN (The event is Part of the Pusey 140 celebrations)  In 1935, Frederic Hood, the House’s then Principal, commissioned his friend Ninian Comper to reorder the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament at Pusey House. The resulting scheme, complete with its golden ciborium, is a perfect example of Comper’s later style: ‘unity by inclusion’ - a stylistic conclusion that Comper arrived at having realised that all religious art was consonantly connected through the same divine inspiration. This lecture, presented by the architectural historian (and former Sacristan of the House), Harry Spain will examine the theory and significance of Comper’s work here, tracing his sources of inspiration from 4th century Algeria to Botticelli, whilst also exploring Comper’s connexion to Oxford and the work of Pusey House itself.