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Lawrence Shipway, freemason

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Malcolm Airs
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The chronological extension of Howard Colvin’s Dictionary from its starting point of 1660 in the first edition of 1954 to the earlier date of 1600 in the second edition of 1978 enabled him to assess the career of Inigo Jones and that in itself provided him with sufficient justification. It also, inevitably, brought in a group of practising craftsmen who were capable of producing original designs as the occasion demanded but whose livelihoods depended to a greater or lesser extent on their manual and administrative skills. They were usually masons by training, such as Nicholas Stone, Robert Stickells, William Arnold, William Edge and the Yorkshire company of Akroyd, Bentley and Clark who migrated to Oxford in 1609, but they included notable carpenters such as Francis Carter, Robert Lyming and John Scampion, the bricklayer Peter Mills and the glazier Barnard Dinninghof.

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Section 5: Contributions to Architectural Biography
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Architectural History , Volume 27: Design and Practice in British Architecture , 1984 , pp. 368 - 375
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Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1984

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Notes

1 Mrs Tempest, Arthur Cecil ‘Some Further Notes on Standish Church and its Chantries’, Trans. Hist. Soc. of Lancs, and Cheshire, lviii, n.s. xxii (1906), 41-63.Google Scholar

2 There is some dispute as to precisely how much of the medieval church was incorporated in the Elizabethan rebuilding. A document of the first decade of the seventeenth century, giving counsel’s opinion on, inter alia, whether it was ‘a new church or to be esteemed the old church’, is unfortunately ambiguous on this point (Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C 368, fols 33-34). I am grateful to DrT. H. Cocke for drawing my attention to this document and for discussing other points relating to Standish. It should be added that he does not necessarily subscribe to all the opinions expressed here. The present tower is a replacement of 1867.

3 The nave roof is inscribed with the date 1585, the south chancel chapel is dated 1589, and one of the windows was being glazed in 1590.

4 Mrs Tempest, op. cit., 63.

5 Perhaps the closest comparison is St Michael, Arthuret, Cumbria, built a few years later in 1609, and paid for by national subscription.

6 The Charnocks were evidently a church-building family for Richard Charnock, who paid for the rebuilding of St Nicholas, Holcot, Beds, in c. 1590, was descended from the Lancashire line.

7 He was baptized at Standish on 21 January 1561/62 and buried there in 1631. Price, W. F. ‘Notes on the Parish Church of St Wilfred, Standish’, Trans. Hist. Soc. of Lancs, and Cheshire, LVandLVl, n.s. xix and xx (1903-04), 251.Google Scholar

8 For a similar gesture of public defiance see Tresham’s, Sir Thomas Triangular Lodge, Rushton, Northants. of 1594-979 Google Scholar

9 Hist. MSS. Comm., Various Collections, III, 152.

10 Price, op. cit., p. 264.

11 The unfoliated building accounts are in Staffordshire County Record Office, D. (W). 1721/1/4.

12 VCH Staffordshire, vi (1979), 201.

13 Shrewsbury Public Library, Deeds 6885.

14 Ibid., Deeds6883.

15 Ibid., Deeds 6884.

16 Ibid., Deeds 7081.

17 Ibid., Deeds 7029.

18 The difficulties in interpreting the evidence on this subject are discussed in chapter 3 of Airs, M. The Making of the English Country House, 1500-1640 (London, 1975).Google Scholar

19 Shrewsbury Public Library, Deeds 7081.

20 ‘Extracts from the Registers of the Parish of Much Wenlock’, Trans. Shropshire Arch. Soc., xi (1888), 15.

21 ‘Condover Hall’, Country Life, xliii (1918), 513.

22 The ‘Mr Shipwaie, mason’ who concluded an agreement to make 3 chimneys and a window for Stafford Gaol on 4 November 1622 (Staffs. CRO, D. (W) 1721/1/4, fol. 153“) was presumably either an aged Lawrence or a descendent. It suggests that the family remained in residence in the town after the construction of the Shire Hall, but no further references have been found.