St Mary & All Saints, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Good Samaritan Window (detail).
By Margaret Edith Aldrich Rope (1891-1988), 1953.
Memorial window to Edward Errol Gaunt Bradbury (d1950).
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St Mary & All Saints, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Memorial Window to Harold Bradford (1921-1990).
St Francis of Assisi.
Detail - Signature.
By Sep Waugh (1936-2015), 1994.
Sep Waugh was born in Bishopthorpe, York, and attended the former Archbishop Holgate Grammar School, where he excelled in art. In the early 1950s he became an apprentice to Harry Stammers. He went on to work for another York stained glass designer, Harry Harvey, before branching out into business on his own, having studios first in Micklegate and then in Trinity Lane, off Micklegate.
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St Mary & All Saints, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
East Window (detail) by Christopher Webb (1886-1966), 1947.
Christopher Rahere Webb (1886-1966) was a major stained glass artist active from the 1920s into the early 60s. In his small Orchard House Studio in St Albans, with only one or two assistants, he created hundreds of stained glass windows, many replacing ones destroyed by enemy action in the Second World War.
His uncle was the architect Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930) and his older brother, Geoffrey, was also an accomplished stained glass artist.
He was given the second name Rahere in honour of the Augustinian Canon who founded the Priory and Hospital of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield. Derelict by the end of the 19th century, the restoration work of the buildings was entrusted to Sir Aston Webb, assisted by his brother Edward who was Churchwarden there and whose passion was architecture. The name 'Rahere' was appropriate for the son of the latter born at this time.
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The Royal Oak, 1 The Shambles, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, C16, with C18 additions.
Close studded timber framing, jettied above. Ground floor brickwork, with later additions in brick.
Grade ll* listed.
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The Roundhouse, Barrow Hill, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
For the Midland Railway, 1869-70.
Grade ll listed.
The beginnings of Barrow Hill.
Originally the engine shed was known as Staveley Shed, in more recent times it has become known as Barrow Hill Roundhouse, named after the village. Barrow Hill village is less than 200 years old. Its story begins during the Industrial Revolution, with a landscape rich in coal and ironstone.
The former steam roundhouse is a unique example of 19th century railway architecture. It is the last surviving operational roundhouse engine shed in Great Britain.
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