A number of associated skills and techniques were also taught, such as gold leafing (surface and glass), carving (in various mediums), glue-glass chipping, stencilling, and silk-screening.
The chancel, which features stencilling and paintings from the 1890s, is topped by a hammerbeam roof, and the roof of the nave has gabled clerestory windows.
The delicate blue and gold stencilling and marble rose colours of the church interior also deteriorated over time, so in the late 1950s, these extraordinary colour schemes were painted over.
The stencilling on the interior was painted over in the 1950s, with the exception of the sunflower bands in between the ceiling rafters, which were too difficult to reach.
The complex stencilling of the sanctuary and side chapels was lost in the 1960s to a monotone covering of paint.
The board or shutterlike contrivance typically of wood or cast of sheet metal is frequently decorated with painting and stencilling.
Attempts were made to brighten it up by stencilling patterns on it with oil paint, but these suffered from a lack of durability.
By 2000 he had turned to the art of stencilling after realising how much less time it took to complete a work.
