Jones and Willis
Active: 1876 - 1901
Function: Medieval/art metal workers, manufacturers of church furniture, stone and marble carvers, wood carvers
Policy: Listed in Hulley's Trade Directory (1881) as 'manufacturers of church furniture in metal, wood, and textile fabrics, chandeliers, lamps, and gas fittings, embroiderers and makers of clerical robes, vestments etc.' and in
The Irish Builder of 1881 as: 'Metal workers in: silver, brass and iron gates, coronae standards, altar rail standards, lecterns, communion vessels, & c. Manufacturers and patentees of 'The Hesperus Star Lamp', equal to 45 candles'. 'Wood work: altars, chairs, sedilia, lecterns, pulpits, church seating..& c.'.
Locations
Business located at 16 Temple Row Birmingham | View on map
1876 (Presumed) - 1881 (Presumed)
Business located at 43 Great Russell Street London | View on map
1876 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
Business located at 260 Euston Road London | View on map
1876 (Presumed) - 1881 (Presumed)
Listed as the London based 'works' of the business.
Business located at Edmund Street Birmingham | View on map
1886 (Presumed) - 1901 (Presumed)
Business located at Porchester Street Birmingham | View on map
1886 (Presumed) - 1901 (Presumed)
Listed as location of the 'works' of the business.
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed in Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2206
Listed as 'Medieval Metal Worker'
Listed under Art Metal Workers Hulley's Birmingham Directory, Part 2, Alphabetical List to SAD-ZIN and Trades, 1876-77 Hulley's Birmingham Directory
1876 - 1877
Listed as 'Medieval Metal Workers'.
Listed under Art Metal Workers Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Trades Section, 1886 Kelly's Trades Directories
1886
Listed under Art Metal Workers Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, with its Suburbs, 1890 Kelly's Trades Directories
1890 (Presumed)
Listed under Art Metal Workers Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, 1896 Kelly's Trade Directorires
1896
Listed under Art Metal Workers Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Trades, Official and Adverts 1901 Kelly's Trades Directories
1901
Listed under Stone Carvers Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Trades Section, 1886 Kelly's Trades Directories
1886
Listed as'Stone and Marble Carvers.'
Listed under Stone Carvers Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, with its Suburbs, 1890 Kelly's Trades Directories
1890
Listed as 'Stone and Marble Carvers'.
Listed under Stone Masons Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, 1896 Kelly's Trade Directorires
1896
Listed as 'Stone and Marble Carvers'.
Listed under Stone Masons Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Trades, Official and Adverts 1901 Kelly's Trades Directories
1901
Listed as 'Stone and Marble Carvers'.
Listed under Wood Carvers Hulley's Birmingham Directory, Trades Section, 1881 Hulley's Trade Directorires
1881
Listed as 'Carvers in Wood, Stone, &c.'.
Listed under Wood Carvers Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Trades Section, 1886 Kelly's Trades Directories
1886
Listed under Wood Carvers Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, with its Suburbs, 1890 Kelly's Trades Directories
1890
Listed under Wood Carvers Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, 1896 Kelly's Trade Directorires
1896
Listed under Wood Carvers Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Trades, Official and Adverts 1901 Kelly's Trades Directories
1901
Sources
Hulley's Birmingham Directory, Part 2, Alphabetical List to SAD-ZIN and Trades, 1876-77 Hulley's Birmingham Directory
1876 (Probable)
p. 620.
Hulley's Birmingham Directory, Trades Section, 1881 Hulley's Trade Directorires
1881
p. 536.
Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, 1896 Kelly's Trade Directorires
1896
p. 593, p. 626 and p. 770.
Kelly's Directory of the Building Trades Comprising Every Trade and Profession in any way connected with Architecture and Building throughout England, Scotland and Wales, 1886 Kelly's Trades Directories
1886
Birmingham Advertisements, p. 30
Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Trades Section, 1886 Kelly's Trades Directories
1886
p. 558, p. 591 and p. 726.
Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Trades, Official and Adverts 1901 Kelly's Trades Directories
1901
p. 716, p. 755, p. 930.
Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, with its Suburbs, 1890 Kelly's Trades Directories
1890
p. 534, p. 567 amd p. 699.
Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2206
The Irish Builder, 1881 formerly The Dublin Builder
1881
1 January 1881, p. ii: 'Decorators'
Citing this record
'Jones and Willis', 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=msib4_1213278134, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
