Charles Lutyens obituary

My husband, Charles Lutyens, who has died aged 87, was responsible for one of the largest mosaic murals in the British Isles by a single artist, a work entitled the Angels of the Heavenly Host that was created in the 1960s for the interior of the newly consecrated church of St Paul’s in Bow, London.At 800 sq feet it took him five years to complete, from 1963 to 1968, and was made from tesserae of 700 different colours he ordered from the Venetian island of Murano and which arrived at the c