Lot 13 , A group of English medieval church/priory architectural stonework and tile fragments, some pieces with inscribed labels of provenance,

A group of English medieval church/priory architectural stonework and tile fragments, some pieces with inscribed labels of provenance, including two fragments of figures supposedly from the lowest row of niches of Wells Cathedral, Somerset, four sections of stonework from Merton Priory, Surrey (destroyed in 1538) from excavations from 1898-1929, a section of a door jamb from the cloisters of Glastonbury Abbey, a section from the reredos of Lady St Mary church, Wareham, Dorset, and a section of the reredos of Cuthbert Church, Wells, Somerset with traces of red paint
Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke
Estimate £300-500


Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Antiquities and Asian works of art, principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with local archaeological digs undertaken by the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.
The inscribed labels in this lot were probably produced in the 1940s-50s.



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Sold for £700