Mies van de Rohe may be credited with the remark ‘God is in the details’. In this year, the 1700 anniversary of the Council of Nicaea which was convened in 325CE, addressed the theological nature of the relationship between God and Jesus. Against the teaching of Arius, who maintained Jesus was a creation of God, the Council of Nicaea declared that God and Christ were of ‘one substance’ and therefore equal.

Perhaps Mies van de Rohe might thus maintain the ‘Holy Trinity is in the details’, now exquisitely carved by Georgy Mkrtichian, for our new gilt and walnut crucifix for the Chapel at Lincoln’s Inn. Ironically, this essentially Gothic interior, consecrated in 1623, was reputedly designed by Inigo Jones, who some ten years later, also designed the first classical building in London, St Paul’s Covent Garden.

The poet and theologian (and later Dean of St Paul’s), John Donne, noted for both his sermons on the concept of the Trinity and his colourful love-life, was the first chaplain in the chapel.The pieces were dedicated in a service on Sunday 19 Jan by the current chaplain, Canon Dr Sheila Watson.