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Sampson Frisby (13h1) : rediscovering the career and milieu of a 17th-century freemason
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Alexander, Jennifer S. and Morrison, Kathryn A. (2021) Sampson Frisby (13h1) : rediscovering the career and milieu of a 17th-century freemason. Transactions, 65 . pp. 20-37. ISSN 0951-001X.
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Abstract
Sampson Frisby (1597-1656) was a prolific stonemason, active in Northamptonshire and surrounding counties in the first half of the 17th century. His distinctive personal mason’s mark has been identified in the accounts of Clare College, Cambridge, and discovered on the ashlar of several significant country houses and churches. This allows his career to be reconstructed, beginning in the important workshop of the master mason Thomas Thorpe (c.1565-1626) in Kings Cliffe around 1618. This study reveals how masons’ marks can illuminate the process of building in the early modern period, developing a methodological approach first published by the authors in 2007. It additionally stimulates speculation about the career of Sampson’s father, the equally prolific Humphrey Frisby (d.1624/25), and highlights two factors that had a profound effect on the Frisby family and their contemporaries: the supplanting of Kings Cliffe by Ketton as a regional quarrying centre, and the subsequent disruption of the Civil War.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History of Art | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Transactions | ||||
Publisher: | Ancient Monuments Society | ||||
ISSN: | 0951-001X | ||||
Official Date: | 2021 | ||||
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Volume: | 65 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 20-37 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
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