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“beautifully enriched with carvings of the vine and hop”
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15.09.1871
Unspecified work for Alfred Joseland, Wine Merchant and Brewer (Messrs Joseland), of 7 Foregate Street.
20.09.1871
MESSRS. JOSELAND AND SONS’ BREWERY, &c Having lately described two new breweries at present in full operation in this city, it now becomes our pleasing task to give a sketch of a third establishment, which the old firm of George Joseland and Sons have recently completed.
Worcester Cathedral
Image #1: Worcester Cathedral | D[ea]r Frank / when do you / break up for / your holiday / let me know / with love from Aunt / Arabella
Image #2: WORCESTER CATHEDRAL 3568 | “AERO PICTORIAL LTD., 137, REGENT STREET, LONDON, W.A”. / AERO PICTORIAL AIR VIEW / Copyright Air Photograph
22.03.1862
…reference to the work of restoration…and on the assertion made therein…calculated seriously to damage the professional reputation of the architect to the Dean and Chapter and the ingenious artists employed as sculptors under his direction… THE TRUTH. In full consciousness of the great interest attaching to the carvings, Mr Perkins, the architect, and the sculptors Mr Forsyth and Mr Boulton, who have been successively employed under him, have taken extraordinary care for their preservation… [Worcester Herald]
26.03.1862
COMMUNICATIONS TO THE EDITOR. WORCESTER CATHEDRAL CARVINGS. … The carver and sculptor, Mr. R. Boulton, not Forsyth and Boulton, as appeared in Saturday’s Herald, is a person of acknowledged ability… JAS. BENNETT AND SON Birmingham, March 22nd, 1862. [Worcestershire Chronicle]
1 – 7a Sansome Street, Worcester, 1874
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Crockets again, must be arranged further apart, and pinnacles must be more lofty when situated at the top of a building or tower, than they would be if the same pinnacle were intended to be near the eye. The same rule holds good with regard to capitals, canopies, and other features that are liable to lose their apparent height by foreshortening.
– James Kellaway Colling: ‘Gothic ornaments, being a series of examples of enriched details and accessories of the architecture of Great Britain. Drawn from existing authorities’, 1850
Hop Pickers 1874, Sansome Street, Worcester
With Glee…
05.04.1879 WORCESTER GLEE CLUB. The advent of April denotes the end of the season of the glee clubs, and on Tuesday night last was the closing performance at the Crown Hotel, when the members of the above old-established club turned out in such numbers that the large room was crowded, and the side room was also occupied. During the evening Mr. T. M. Hopkins in a few sentences asked those present to drink to “The health of the Mayor,” who was in the room, and Mr. Holland responded. He then asked the company to drink to the health of Mr. Forsyth, sculptor, who had presented the club with a bust of the late Mr. Allen Wheeler, a gentleman who when alive took a great interest in the club. Mr. Forsyth shortly replied. [Worcestershire Chronicle] Allen Wheeler, 1803-1876, of 32 York Place, Tything of Whistones, surgeon and eldest son of the Rev. Allen Wheeler, Minor Canon of the Cathedral 1799-1851 and Precentor 1820-1851.
The Guildhall, Worcester
Image: E. 39129. Worcester: Guildhall & High Street. | Celesque Series / Published by The Photochrom Co., Ltd., London & Tunbridge Wells.
03.08.1878
“Guildhall / 4 Sicialin Marble C[himney]. Pieces / 3 Derbyshire Moulded Jambs / 2 of fine green ditto for Assembly Room / …Carving in Stone pieces of Ornament over doorway / …Carving in Wood 2 Chimney Pieces for Assembly Room / Ditto Ditto Ditto 3 Ditto Ditto Ditto / …Wood Carving to Assembly Doors / …Carving on Pilaster outside / …Marble Frieze”, etc. for Thomas John Dixon, Builder, of East Street, Claines.
18.07.1888
“… restoring 5 [?] to vases on / parapet to North & South wings / of the Guild Hall” for The Corporation of Worcester per Mr H. Rowe. Henry Rowe, Architect and Surveyor, of 14 Foregate Street), and Surveyor to County, Corporation and Charity Trustees of Worcester s/o Henry Rowe, Architect, and collaborator with George Gilbert Scott on the restoration of the Guildhall in 1870s.
Studio and Works 1875 (Worcestershire Chronicle)
St Leonard’s Church and Almshouses at Newland, Great Malvern
Image: St Leonard’s Church, Newland, Great Malvern / Architect: P. C. Hardwick, 1864 / The Santuary / Photograph: Matthew Peach / Judges Postcards Ltd., Hastings, England.
18.10.1865
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. NEWLAND CHURCH. The old church at Newland is being pulled down. … On the spot where the altar stood a cross is to be placed, Mr. Forsyth, of Worcester, being entrusted with the order. [Worcestershire Chronicle]
25.05.1868
“Memorial Cross in Marble with Carved Lilies / Palm Branch, Crown. Small cross / and Lamb” for Rev. James Skinner.
04.02.1869
“Memorial…in / Newland Church Yard” for John Julian Cresset Kent, Gentleman and Farmer at Kempsey.
30.05.1869
Unspecified work for Rev. James Skinner.
24.12.1869
Unspecified work for Rev. James Skinner.
16.03.1871
Unspecified work [Burrow] for Rev. James Skinner.
25.04.1873
Unspecified work [Pensioner Williams] for Rev. James Skinner.
21.10.1873
Unspecified work [Pensioner Walter] for Rev. James Skinner.
19.05.1874
Unspecified work for Rev. James Skinner.
23.06.1875
Unspecified work for Rev. James Skinner.
30.01.1876
Unspecified work for Rev. James Skinner.
04.10.1877
Unspecified work for Rev. James Skinner.
14.10.1880
“…executing 2 Green Marble Columns Moulded / Bases White Alabaster Caps carved with leaves / Grapes and Ears of Corn all polished & fixed” for Rev. George Cosby White.
12.10.1881
“… executing No. 4 red marble columns No. 4 green / marble bases and No. 4 Alabaster Capitals Carved / No. 4 Green bands and alabaster bands all polished / and fixed complete” and “3 Memorial crosses for Pensioners” for Rev. George Cosby White.
21.12.1882
“…executing Piscina and Credence Table and / fixing same as per drawings” and “Memorial Brass with Frame Work” and “6 Memorial Stones for Pensioners” for Rev. George Cosby White.
10.05.1883
“…executing & fixing Marble Step to Alter” for Rev. George Cosby White.
28.07.1883
“…Pensioners Memorials Lawrence & Charles” and “Mans time cutting letters on Marble Step to Sanctuary” for Rev. George Cosby White.
08.08.1883
“…Mens time working & fixing Marble Step and Alabaster Panels” for Rev. George Cosby White.
09.10.1883
“…2 Pensioners Crosses” for Rev. George Cosby White.
17.04.1884
“…4 Pensioners Crosses [Elizabeth Jones, Sarah Bennett, Richard Barber, Joshua Drew] / …executing Stone Cross [to Thomas Hurd]” for Rev. George Cosby White.
27.08.1884
“…2 Pensioners Crosses [Elizabeth Yeoman, James Jones]” for Rev. George Cosby White.
??.??.1885
“…One Pensioners Memorial Cross [Philpotts]” for Rev. George Cosby White.
25.09.1885
“…One Pensioners Memorial Cross [Hyde]” for Rev. George Cosby White.
28.04.1886
“…One Pensioners Cross [John Kings]” for Rev. George Cosby White.
07.07.1886
“…executing Marble Memorial Cross with / sacred Monogram… / as per estimate given / to the Revd G. C. White”, etc., for Charles Walmsley, of Barsham House, Graham Road, Great Malvern.
29.11.1886
“…One Pensioners Cross [Bridges]” for Rev. George Cosby White.
11.05.1887
“…One Pensioners Cross [Adnams]” for Rev. George Cosby White.
??.??.1888
“…memorial headstone & fixing / same in Newland churchyard” for Catherine Ridd, w/o Thomas Ridd, Coal Agent, of Powick.
18.06.1888
“…pensioner Elizabeth Caswell / …executing new Cross” for Rev. George Cosby White.
20.12.1888
“…Memorial crosses Pensioner / Edwin Smith & Pensioner / Mary Groves / …cleaning pensioner Roger’s / Memorial” for Rev. George Cosby White.
15.04.1889
“…executing marble steps & / fixing to chancel fixing new tread / to pulpit steps, alabaster cornice to / pulpit & new figure in alabaster / to centre panel also lining sides to / chancel screen with Rouge / Royal” for Rev. George Cosby White.
10.07.1889
“…executing memorial cross to the / memory of Pensioner [?] / wife & daughter” for Rev. George Cosby White.
13.09.1889
“…taking up Miss Skinner’s memorial / at Newland & thoroughly cleaning / the same” for Agnes Skinner nee Raymond, of 11 The Passage, Bath, w/o Rev. James Skinner.
11.04.1890
“…one Pensioner Stone named Trapp” for Rev. George Cosby White.
24.03.1891
“…executing memorial cross in Hopton Wood Stone” for Rev. George Cosby White.
14.09.1891
“…pensioners stone Morris / …mens time refixing marble / steps and tiles to chancel / …work in preparing and fixing / dormer windows / …executing seats in the best / Riga Oak”, etc., for Rev. George Cosby White.
05.11.1891
“…working and polishing alabaster / panel also working and polishing / Italian greotte marble band”, etc. for Rev. George Cosby White.
02.02.1892
“…one memorial cross to pensioner Holtam” for Rev. George Cosby White.
1873 Littlebury’s Directory & Gazetteer pp 930, 1316, 1323
??.??.1867
“Cutting out Patterns for Stencilling for / Holy Trinity Church Shrub Hill / Ditto for Mr Joselands Shop front / Taking up and relaying piping and / repairing drain at Mr Malpas’s Foregate St / Fixing Chimney piece / Memorial Head Stone in Marble with / Stone Plinth / Shelf in freeze Stone” for Frederick Wells, Painter, Builder and Contractor, of 47 Foregate Street.
22.03.1870
Unspecified work for Frederick Wells, Painter, Builder and Contractor, of 47 Foregate Street.
06.04.1872
Unspecified work for Frederick Wells, Builder and Contractor, of 47 Foregate Street.
11.04.1874
RE–OPENING OF THE CATHEDRAL AFTER ITS RESTORATION. The re–opening of the Cathedral… …Decorators: Messrs. Hardman, of Birmingham; and Mr. Wells, of Worcester. Sculptors and carvers: Mr. Forsyth, of Worcester, Mr. Boulton, of Cheltenham; and Messrs. Farmer and Brindley, of Lambeth, London. [Worcestershire Chronicle]
24.10.1881
“…Carving executed on new buildings for Mr Stewart / in Pump Street as per estimate supplied to Mr Wells” and “Carving bricks Caps to Shops in High Street and / Pump Street” and “Caps in High Street” and “cutting Compton Buildings” and “cutting name on Mr Shaw’s House” and “executing 2 Caen Stone Corbel” and “cutting letters on Stone [? Stephen’s Villas]” and “Carving Wood Trusses” for Messrs Dixon Brothers [Hercules Henry Dixon and Thomas John Dixon] Builders and Constructors, of Arboretum.
William Forsyth’s Account Book 1867 – 1895
Image: Account Book of William Forsyth (Stonemason of Worcester), Worcestershire Archives: ref. 989.9:742, BA 8740.
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