Chris Beetles Gallery

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Helion Bumpstead

Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989)

Price

£1,750

Signed

Signed and inscribed with title
Inscribed with title and 'Essex' below mount

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches

Illustrated

Clifford Bax, Highways and Byways in Essex, London: Macmillan and Co, 1939, page 114

Exhibited

'S R Badmin RWS, Paintings, Drawings & Prints', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2015, no 98;
'The Illustrators. the British Art of Illustration 1837-2015', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2015 - January 2016, no 266

'A mile or two north of Hempstead we find ourselves at the Bumpsteads. In spite of their comic names,
they are highly serious villages. Steeple is, perhaps, rather more impressive than Helions, but that is partly because the tower of the church at Helions tumbled down in 1812. "Helions", we are told, is a word derived from "Tihel the Breton who held the manor in 1085": "Steeple", surprisingly enough, seems to take its prefix not from any connection with its church, but rather from a stepel or tower "probably belonging to some ancient stronghold near Haverhill, where the remains of an ancient earthwork are still to be seen " (G. Worley).'
Clifford Bax, Highways and Byways in Essex, page 116

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