William Stanton (mason)
William Stanton (1639–1705) was an English mason and sculptor. He is known particularly for monumental masonry. He is often ferred to as Stanton of Holborn.
Life
[edit]He was son of Edward Stanton (d.1686), and nephew of the mason Thomas Stanton (d.1674).[1] Thomas Stanton had set up a business adjacent to St Andrew Holborn in the first half of the seventeenth century.[2]
In 1663 William Stanton became free of the Masons' Company, and was Master of the Company in 1688 and 1689.[1] He worked at Gray's Inn around 1672.[2] In 1686 he became master-mason at Belton House, followed by a commission at Denham Place from 1689; and in 1701 was working at Stonyhurst.[1][2] Over 30 of his church monuments are recorded.[1]
His apprentices included "Thomas Hill the Younger" son of Thomas Hill Master of the Worshipful Company of Masons.[3]
He died in 1705 and is buried in St Andrew's Church, Holborn.[1]
Monuments
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The following is a list of people whose monuments are known to have been created by Stanton and the monument's location:
- John Byde in Bengeo (1665)
- Hon. Penelope Egerton in Westminster Abbey (1670)
- John Bromley (born c. 1611, died 1674; younger son of Sir Thomas Bromley of Holt Castle) in Worcester Cathedral (1674)
- Charles Harsnett in Westminster Abbey (1674)
- Sir John Dormer and his wife Susanna in Quainton (1675)[4]
- Dr Walter Balcanqual in Chirk Church (1678)
- Elizabeth Davies in Monken Hadley (1678)
- Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet and his wife in St Peter and St Paul's Church, Belton (1679)
- Sir Edward Sebright in Besford (1679)
- Ann Filding, Lady Morland in Westminster Abbey (1680)
- Ornate pillars in the cloister of the Inner Temple, London (1680)
- William Emmott in Colne (1683)
- John Archer in Theydon Garnon Church (1683)
- Sir Richard Harison and his wife in Hurst, Berkshire (1683)
- The Ladies Hatton in Gretton, Northamptonshire (1684)
- Sir Richard Newdigate, 1st Baronet and his wife in Harefield (1685)
- Mrs Elizabeth Beane at Hythe, Kent (c.1685)
- Sir Richard Atkins, 2nd Baronet and Lady Atkins at St Paul's Church, Clapham (c.1689)
- William Mellish at Ragnell, Nottinghamshire (1690)
- Charles Holloway at St Mary's Church in Oxford (1695)
- Lady Bagot at Blithfield (1695)
- Rev Richard Lucy at Christ Church in Brecon (1696)
- Memorial to Lord Rivers at Macclesfield (1696)
- Abraham Stanyon at Harefield (1696)
- Sir John Assheton in Downham (1697)
- Ralph Skynner in Hitchin (1697)
- Chancellor William Lucy at Christ Church in Brecon (1697)
- Lady Isham in Lamport Church (1699)
- Thomas Coventry, 1st Earl of Coventry in Elmley Castle (1699)
- Isaac Motham in Hethersett (1699)
- Lady Williamson in Monkwearmouth (1699)
- Lord Lonsdale in Lowther, Westmorland (1700)
- Richard Shireburn, Mitton church (1701) commissioned by Sir Nicholas Shireburn
- Tomb of Dean Henry Fairfax in Norwich Cathedral (1702)
- Judith Chester at Barkway (1702)
- Owen Bold at Wrexham (1703)
- Ornamentation at Stonyhurst House (1703)
- Lord Thomas Howard (1651-1701) in Ashtead Church (1703)
- Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester in Penshurst Church (1704)
Family
[edit]His wife Dorothy died in 1707 and is buried in St Andrew's Church, Holborn.
Edward Stanton was his son.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 (revised version of 1951 edition), pp. 366–8.
- ^ a b c Fisher, Geoffrey. "Stanton, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/38004. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.201
- ^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147904009/john-dormer [user-generated source]
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