{"id":6063,"date":"2020-08-03T12:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=6063"},"modified":"2020-10-24T07:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T06:06:25","slug":"kew-the-pew-cushions-in-st-annes-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/kew-the-pew-cushions-in-st-annes-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Kew: The pew cushions in St Anne&#8217;s Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1961 the architect George Cassidy and his wife Kath, residents of Kew Green and parishioners at St Anne\u2019s, embarked on a project which took them and their helpers 17 years to complete \u2013 to make cushions for all the church pews. George Cassidy first became interested in pew cushions when studying Winchester Cathedral as an architecture student and he subsequently designed kneelers for Guildford Cathedral. He was also a local historian and an active member of the Richmond Local History Society, and wrote the books <em> Kew As It Was <\/em>and <em>An Architectural History of St Anne\u2019s Church, Kew Green<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\" class=\"wp-image-6088\" style=\"width: 450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-Annes-collage.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-Annes-collage.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-Annes-collage-250x177.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-Annes-collage-500x353.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-Annes-collage-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-Annes-collage-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/st-Annes-collage-624x441.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This combination of professional expertise and personal interest came together in producing a series of pew cushions based on the lives of many historically significant Kew people and buildings, including St Anne\u2019s.  \u201cThe Pew Cushions in St Anne\u2019s Church, Kew\u201d by G E Cassidy was first published in our journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/journal\/\"><em>Richmond History,<\/em><\/a> no 8 (1987) and you can now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/The-Pew-Cushions-1.pdf\">read it here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1961 the architect George Cassidy and his wife Kath, residents of Kew Green and parishioners at St Anne\u2019s, embarked on a project which took them and their helpers 17 years to complete \u2013 to make cushions for all the church pews. George Cassidy first became interested in pew cushions when studying Winchester Cathedral as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6063","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6354,"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6063\/revisions\/6354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richmondhistory.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}