Drawings Church at Sandbach, Cheshire
Object number
LDSAL2020.1.157
Production date
1847
Production place
Camden
Material
Paper
Pen
Ink
Pen
Ink
Technique
Drawing
Writing (Processes)
Handwriting
Writing (Processes)
Handwriting
Dimensions
Height: 383mm
Width: 247mm
Height (of Mount): 383mm
Width (of Mount): 265mm
Width: 247mm
Height (of Mount): 383mm
Width (of Mount): 265mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
25 Kings Road
Camden Town
9th July 1847
Dear Sir
I met with the above sculptures on the Church at Sandbach in Cheshire. This Church is not many yards from the famous Crosses at Sandbach which (on good authority) are said to have been erected soon after the introduction of Christianity into this country - I venture to submit that these heads are of a style of art older than that of the Normans & as such are worthy of presentation - the Church of Sandbach is at present being restored & some heads have been removed which I have no doubt were similar to the above - the Church was undoubtedly of Saxon foundation and contains as well as the above, specimens of Norman, Early Pointed, Perpendicular & even so late as Elizabethan Architecture.
I am...in haste
truly yours
[signature unclear]
Camden Town
9th July 1847
Dear Sir
I met with the above sculptures on the Church at Sandbach in Cheshire. This Church is not many yards from the famous Crosses at Sandbach which (on good authority) are said to have been erected soon after the introduction of Christianity into this country - I venture to submit that these heads are of a style of art older than that of the Normans & as such are worthy of presentation - the Church of Sandbach is at present being restored & some heads have been removed which I have no doubt were similar to the above - the Church was undoubtedly of Saxon foundation and contains as well as the above, specimens of Norman, Early Pointed, Perpendicular & even so late as Elizabethan Architecture.
I am...in haste
truly yours
[signature unclear]
Inscription content
123
References
Reference (free text)
Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard, Cheshire (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978), pp. 330-333.
At the bottom of the page, below the drawing, is a letter to Charles Roach Smith, dated 9 July 1847, from Camden Town. The signature on the letter is unclear and very difficult to read, but it may be either John Brown or W[illia]m Brown.