One of two magnificent English Painswick stone late Regency Gothic chimneypieces designed by Foster & Okely in 1831 for the Priory, Abbots Leigh, Bristol. The present chimneypiece was designed for the drawing room, see attached original drawing. The crocketted and crenellated tower jambs rise above the shelf, each carved with a niche surmounted by an elaborately carved vaulted canopy. The spandrels either side of the moulded arched opening are finely carved and deeply undercut with oak leaves and a Fleur de lys to the left and a stylised Tudor Rose to the right.

For further information on the Bristol archtects Foster and Okely see Howard Colvin 'A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 1995 pp. 372-73.

See also Stock No. 3167

The Priory, Abbots Leigh, Bristol.

1831

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