Carfin Grotto, Lanarkshire The focus of Anson’s drawing is not the parish church of St. Francis Xavier, but the replica of the Lourdes grotto, built in the church’s grounds in the 1920s; while the Pugin brothers’ Gothic church can be glimpsed in the background, Anson’s work draws the eye instead to one of the devotional sculptures, which may be a shrine, which fill the garden; two small figures take in the atmosphere of the replica grotto as one walks towards, and the other away from, the church; Anson’s sky, blocked in with horizontal lines, emphasises the even, peaceful plane of the garden [c 1934-c 1952]