John Skelton (sculptor)

John Stephen Skelton MBE FRBS (8 July 1923 – 26 November 1999)[1] was a British letter-cutter and sculptor.

His public work includes the headstone to Edward James at West Dean, a sculpture of St Augustine above the church of that dedication in Bexhill-on-Sea,[4] and the font at Chichester Cathedral (1983).

Other displays can be found in Stratford-upon-Avon, in the Shakespeare Centre and the adjacent Shakespeare Birthplace Garden, while at St. Paul's Cathedral there are plaques designed by Skelton in memory of 10 Allied Field Marshals of the World War II and Ivor Novello.

[5] A memorial to the generals of World War II is in St Paul's Cathedral Crypt, London.

[citation needed] Skelton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1963.