Corinthian Bronze Co. Ltd.
Active: 1927 - 1951
Function: Architectural metal worker, bronze founder (from 1945)
History or description: The firm was established by Leonard Grist, a former employee of Singers of Frome, Burton and Hollinshead and the Morris Art Bronze Foundry. After the Second World War the company went into voluntary liquidation (1946-7), however it was reformed and continued to trade until the early 1970s.
Locations
Located at 39A Albert Road London SE15 | View on map
1927 (Circa) - 1938
Later renamed Consort Road
Located at 39A Consort Road Peckham London SE15 | View on map
1939 - 1949 (Circa)
Previously named Albert Road, works remained at this address until 1972
Office located at 16 Howick Place London | View on map
1950 (Circa) - 1951 (Circa)
Head office
Associated People
Trade name of Leonard Edwin Grist
1925 (Circa) - 1964 (Circa)
Grist established the firm, it is not known which year he ceased to run the company, possibly in 1945 when the company went into voluntary liquidation (although it then continued to trade)
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed in British Phone Books, 1885-1984
Architectural Bronzework
Listed in The London Directory, 1940 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1940
p.10
Listed as 'Architectural Metal Worker'
Listed in Post Office London Directory, 1950 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1950
p.2027 and p.2028
Listed as 'Bronze Founder' and 'Bronze Statuary'
Sources
British bronze sculpture founders and plaster figure makers, 1800-1980
February 2011
http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/british-bronze-founders-and-plaster-figure-makers-1800-1980-1/british-bronze-founders-and-plaster-figure-makers-1800-1980-c.php (accessed 1 March 2011)
British Phone Books, 1885-1984
2007
Name: Corinthian
Address: Archtrl Brnzwrk, 39a Albert Rd S.E.15 Newx...
Directory title: London Surnames A - Z Apr
Publication Year: 1927
Directory County: London
Page Number: 269
Name: P Corinthian
Address: Archtrl Brnzwrk, 39a Albert Rd S.E.15
Directory title: London Surnames A - K Aug
Publication Year: 1938
Directory County: London
Page Number: 617
Post Office London Directory, 1950 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1950
p.2027 and p.2028
The London Directory, 1940 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1940
p.10
The London Gazette
Issue 37065, 4 May 1945, p. 2365 and Issue 37806, 3 December 1946, p. 5924
Citing this record
'Corinthian Bronze Co. Ltd.', 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/organization.php?id=msib1_1239047092, accessed 05 Oct 2023]
