John Birnie Philip

At St Michael, Cornhill, in the City of London, he carved the decorations for the porch built by Scott as part of his Gothic embellishment of Wren's church.

They included an elaborate tympanum sculpture depicting St Michael disputing with Satan,[3] which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1858, his first work to be shown there.

[3] As part of Scott's restoration of St Mary's chapel at Sudeley Castle, Philip made a font and reredos, and a white, life-size, marble effigy for the canopied tomb of Catherine Parr.

As well as his work on the frieze, he modelled the bronze allegorical statues of Geometry, Philosophy, Geology and Physiology for niches on the western side of the canopy, and the gilt metal angels on the spire.

[6][7] While carrying out this work, Philip lodged in the kitchen wing of The Pavilion, Sloane Place in Chelsea[8] Elsewhere in London, Philip produced allegorical figures (including Art, Law and Commerce) for the front of Scott's Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Whitehall, eight figures of monarchs for the Royal Gallery in the Palace of Westminster (1868–69), a "young woman in classical drapery floating forward on a small cloud" on a drinking fountain in West Smithfield Square (1870) and the decorations, depicting plants and birds, on the Portland stone capitals of the piers of Blackfriars Bridge.

[1] The work, in bronze, had been designed and partially modelled by Philip at the time of his death, and was completed by his assistant Ceccardo Egidio Fucigna.

Philip died of bronchitis at his home, Merton Villa, King's Road, Chelsea on 2 March 1875, and was buried in Brompton Cemetery.