Marble Altar
Created by Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)
Date: 10 December 1864
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: religious and ritual equipment
Object type: altar
Material: stone - marble
Description: 'Marble altar for Francis Street, St Nicholas's Church'
Notes: Costs:
Carvers £2 1s. 8d.
Masons £2 2s. 1d.
" £1 9s. 10d.
" £0 15s. 6d.
" £3 17s. 9d.
" £2 10s. 3 1/2d.
Marble £4 3s. 11d.
Bricks, cement
and copper cramps £0 13s.6d.
total £17 14s. 6 1/2d.
(costs from July 1864)
Sources
Earley and Company (Ecclesiastical Decorators) Documentation: Box 1 of 7 Earley and Company Documentation
Ledger, ECD/6, p. 24
Citing this record
'Marble 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_1214318076, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
