Allied Irish Bank Reliefs
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Location
| Street: | 20-22 Marlborough Place |
| Town: | Brighton |
| Parish: | Brighton |
| Council: | Brighton & Hove City Council |
| County: | East Sussex |
| Postcode: | BN1 1UB |
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| Object setting: | On building |
| and in: | Road or Wayside |
| Access is: | Public |
| Location note: | Around the four windows of the Allied Irish Bank |
| In the AZ book: | East Sussex |
| Page: | 162 |
| Grid reference: | F7 |
| The A-Z books used are A-Z East Sussex and A-Z West Sussex (Editions 1A 2005). Geographers' A-Z Map Company Ltd. Sevenoaks. | |
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Makers
| Name : | John Leopold Denman, F.R.I.B.A |
| Role: | Architect |
| Name : | Joseph Cribb |
| Role: | Sculptor |
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General Information
| Construction period: | 1933 |
| Installation date: | 1933 |
| Work is: | Extant |
| Owner custodian: | Allied Irish Bank. |
| Description: | Three windows at the front of the building set in a concave-chamfered architrave of stone decorated at the springing and above with panels showing the building trades. |
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Classification
| Categories: | Architectural, Sculptural |
| Object type1: | Relief |
| Object type2: | Sculpture |
| Subject type1: | Figurative |
| Subject type2: | Pictorial |
| Subject subtype1: | Group |
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Object Parts
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Object Condition
| Overall condition: | Good |
| Risk assessment: | No known risk |
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History
| History: | 'The first point of departure was the death of my uncle. I wrote then in my diary, my career is finished. I went to Eric Gill's first apprentice Joseph Cribb. He hadn't the brilliance and genius of Eric Gill, but he had the other qualities, and one of those was application. From him I learnt that application is the most important thing in the artist's life. Promising something and seeing it through. I learnt that, not from Eric Gill, but from one of his pupils, which is very interesting. I worked for Joseph Cribb until I was eighteen and a half, and then I went into the army. Had I served my time with Eric Gill I would have become a second rate Gill, he was very easy to copy, and taught by example.'
(John Skelton in 'Joh Skelton: Axis Mundi') Joseph Cribb, Eric Gill’s first assistant Herbert Joseph Cribb was taken on as an assistant by Gill in 1906. His father, Herbert William Cribb, an illustrator and cartographer in Hammersmith worked with William Morris’ printer Emery Walker (1851 – 1933). Walker introduced Gill to Herbert William and witnessed the agreement that Gill would teach Joseph ‘the trade, craft, and business of a letter carver and draughtsman’. By 1907 Cribb was cutting inscriptions from Gill’s drawings and carving sculptures by 1911. He started receiving his own independent commissions once he finished his apprenticeship in 1913, and in this year he joined Gill as a Roman Catholic. In 1921 Cribb taught his younger brother Lawrence to cut letters and sculpt. Lawrence also became Gill’s assistant and followed Gill when he left Ditchling. Unitil Gill’s death Cribb continued to work closely with him. He took over Gill’s workshop and soon had enough work to take on his own assistants, Noel Tabbernor and Kenneth Eager. Eager continued in the same workshop until the end of the Guild in 1989. (Exhibition notes from 'Gill in Ditchling: The Workshop Tradition', Ditching Museum, 9 June - 7 October 2007) The reliefs contain a portrait of Denman as the architect. |
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References
| Source 1 : | |
| Title: | 'John Skelton: Axis Mundi' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | James, N.P. |
| Page: | 12-13 |
| Publisher: | Cv Publications. London. |
| Source 2 : | |
| Title: | 'Eric Gill and Ditchling: the workshop tradition' |
| Type: | Book |
| Author: | Cribb, Ruth & Joe. |
| Page: | 23 |
| Publisher: | Ditchling Museum. Ditchling. |
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| Title: | Cv/Visual Arts Research |
| Type: | Journal |
| Author: | James, N.P. |
| Page: | 12-13 |
| Volume: | 55 |
| Publisher: | Cv Publications. London. |
Further information: | |
| #http://www.ditchling-museum.com/# | |
| #http://www.ditchling-museum.com/# | |
| Date accessed: | 30/07/2007 |
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Photographs
Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |  Author: Anthony McIntosh Copyright: Creative Commons |
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