Chris Beetles Gallery

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Chrishall Church

Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989)

Price

£1,250

Signed

Signed and inscribed with title and 'Essex'
Inscribed with title on reverse

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

5 x 5 ¼ inches

Illustrated

Clifford Bax, Highways and Byways in Essex, London: Macmillan and Co, 1939, page 55

Exhibited

'S R Badmin RWS, Paintings, Drawings & Prints', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2015, no 92

'Chrishall, which contains another crump*, seems to have worried the experts even more severely, and all that they can suggest is that the name ought to mean "Christ's nook " but may mean " Christ's oak": so that we left no wiser.
Clifford Bax, Highways and Byways in Essex, page 54
*a medieval fortified site, usually a mound surrounded by a moat.

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