Stone Altar
Created by Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)
Date: 1861
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: religious and ritual equipment
Object type: altar
Material: stone - limestone - caen stone
Technique: carved
Notes: Costs:
Total Carvers £12 6s. 9d.
Total Masons £9 15s. 81/2d.
Use of 10 cases 4/ £2 0s. 0d.
Caen Stone 67 at 10 2/0 £6 15s. 8d.
2 cols ca. 17ft 1in. at 5/6 ft £0 11s. 11d.
John Earley
3 days and 5 hrs £2 10s. 8d.
Jopling time fixing £3 10s. 8d.
Expenses, carriage, lodgings, assistance, etc... £6 2s. 8d.
Fox's time £0 6s. 8d.
Timber, rails and glue £0 5s. 6d.
Hinges £0 1s. 3d.
Locks, 2 keys £0 6s. 6d.
carriage £0 4s. 6d.
4 yards silk £0 16s. 0d.
making £0 5s. 0d.
McLoughlin £0 1s. 1d.
carriage to station £1 0s. 0d.
total £46 19s. 2d.
Brass Plate £4 10s. 0d.
[revised] total £51 9s. 2d.
Citing this record
'Stone Altar', 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_1214314510, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
