Caen Stone Niches with figures of Sts Peter and Paul

Created by Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)

Date: March 1861
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: architecture (building and structural components), sculpture

Object type: niche, figure

Material: stone - limestone - caen stone, stone - marble

Technique: carved

Description: 'two Caen Stone niches, 8ft 4in high by 2ft 1 1/2in wide, with pinnacles and crockets. Tops supported by marble columns and figures of Sts Peter and Paul placed in the niches, which are fixed in place either side of the chancel', £100 0s. 0d.

Notes: See also Caen Stone Canopy, £50 0s. 0d. and A Figure of Saint Elizabeth, in Portland Stone, £25 0s. 0d., all constituent parts of the same commission.

Citing this record

'Caen Stone Niches with figures of Sts Peter and Paul', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1208779212, accessed 05 Jun 2023]