Chris Beetles Gallery

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Stansted Hall

Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989)

Price

£1,850

Signed

Signed with initials and inscribed 'Stansted Hall, Essex'

Medium

Pen and ink

Dimensions

4 ½ x 7 inches

Illustrated

Clifford Bax, Highways and Byways in Essex, London: Macmillan and Co, 1939, Page 72

Exhibited

'S R Badmin RWS, Paintings, Drawings & Prints', Chris Beetles Gallery, March-April 2015, No 94;
'A Century of British Art: 1900-1945', Chris Beetles Gallery, 21 June-17 July 2021, No 146

‘Stansted is now a place of little honour to English builders ; nor does it seem likely that many travellers will want to examine the earthworks which are all that remains of the castle built by the Norman family of Montfitchet: but so late as 1870 Stansted possessed a remarkable monument of the past. This was a pre-Reformation “wayside chapel”, probably built by John de Vere, twelfth Earl of Oxford, in the middle of the fteenth century. A photograph, taken when the chapel was being demolished shows that it must have been a beautiful building, richly beamed ... Stansted Hall, a noble pile, does what it can to rebuke the vandals of sixty years ago.’
(Clifford Bax, Highways and Byways in Essex, London: Macmillan and Co, 1939, Page 71)

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