Frederick Leach

Frederick R. Leach was a nineteenth-century English master decorator, mural and stained glass painter based in Cambridge. He worked with the architects George Frederick Bodley and George Gilbert Scott Junior and the designer William Morris on a number of high Victorian churches and college interiors. With Bodley, these included the roof and organ loft of St Botolph's Church, Cambridge,[1] the decoration of the dining hall ceiling of Queens' College and All Saints, Cambridge,[2] where he worked as a subcontractor for William Morris.[3] He also carried out Morris's redesign for the roof of the Oxford Union in 1875 [4] and the ceiling of Jesus College in 1866–1867.[5][6]

In 1866 Leach was contracted by William Beaumont to paint the organ pipes and front during the restoration of St Michael's, Cambridge, and, after Beaumont's death, by George Gilbert Scott Junior for the reredos over a two-year period from 1872 to 1874 at a fee of £203-16-2.[7] In 1874, Leach also painted the roof, without payment, as a thanks offering to God.[8]

He founded the firm FR Leach and Sons, responsible among other things for the windows of St. Peter's, Barton.[9] Leach painted the sundial of Queen's College Cambridge in 1864 and his firm was to repaint it in 1911.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Conservation of the Chancel Paintings at St Botolph's Church, Cambridge" (PDF).
  2. ↑ Searby, Peter (1997). A history of the University of Cambridge. (3rd pr. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 41. ISBN 0521350603.
  3. ↑ Harvey, Charles; Press, Jon (1991). William Morris : design and enterprise in Victorian Britain (Reprinted in paperback. ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719024196.
  4. ↑ Goodwin, K. L. (1968). "Morris's 'New and lighter design'," (PDF). William Morris Society Journal 11 (3 (Winter)).
  5. ↑ Rodgers, David. "A Catalogue of the Original Designs by Morris and. Company in the Collection of the William Morris Society." (PDF). William Morris Society Journal.
  6. ↑ "Image of the roof of Jesus College chapel".
  7. ↑ "Constituting angels and mortals in a wonderful order: George Gilbert Scott Junior's Sanctuary in St Michaels Church Cambridge". Ecclesiology Today 46. 2011.
  8. ↑ "Michaelhouse, Cambridge:Historical information" (PDF).
  9. ↑ "Detail from window showing name of FR Leach and Son".
  10. ↑ "The sundial of Queens' College Cambridge".
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, May 24, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.