David John obituary

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David John obituary

My friend David John, who has died aged 95, was an artist and sculptor who played a notable part in raising the quality of Catholic church furnishings in the postwar decades.David’s first major commissions were with the Liverpool architect FX (Francis Xavier) Velarde, providing sculpture and furnishings for the shrine church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackpool (1955-57), and St Luke, Pinner (1958). Also in 1958, he completed a bronze Madonna for t…