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Ninian Comper
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Sir John Ninian Comper, (June 10, 1864 – December 22, 1960), was a Scottish architect of church buildings and furnishings. His commissions include a line of windows in the north wall of the nave of Westminster Abbey, St Mary's in Wellingborough, St Michael and All Angels, Inverness, and St Cyprian's, Clarence Gate, London. Comper is noted for re-introducing the 'English altar', an altar surrounded by riddel posts. Comper designed a number of remarkable altar screens (reredos), inspired by Medieval originals. Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, has one of the finest examples.
Comper was born in Aberdeen, the eldest of five children of Ellen and the Reverend John Comper, Rector of St Margaret of Scotland. He was educated at Glenalmond School in Perthshire and attended a year at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. On moving to London, he was articled to C E Kempe, and later to G F Bodley and T Garner.
Comper was knighted by King George VI in 1950. In 1960, he died in The Hostel of God, now Trinity Hospice, in Clapham. His ashes are buried beneath the windows he designed in Westminster Abbey.
A. Symondson & S. Bucknall, Sir Ninian Comper, Spire Books, 2006