Two Margaret Ropes - Stained Glass Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement

This site is dedicated to the stained glass work of two women called
Margaret Rope.

They were cousins, born within 9 years of each other at the end of the nineteenth century and were active from the second to the eighth decades of the twentieth. To tell them apart, I have called them by their family nicknames: the elder, Margaret Agnes, was "Marga" and the younger, Margaret Edith (M.E.Aldrich Rope), "Tor".

They were among the score or so women stained glass artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement and produced work that can be seen in many churches and other buildings in England, Scotland and Wales as well as in Australia, Canada, Italy, South Africa,
Sri Lanka and Trinidad.

On this site, you will find:

• photos of many of their windows (menu items 2, 3, 4 & 5)

• lists of places where their windows are, with links to
photos of more windows (items 8 & 9)

• information about their lives + family photos (items 6 & 7)

• a family tree excerpt: how the Margarets were related and links to pages on George Thomas Rope and Ellen Mary Rope

• a UK map - where you can see their work

• links to other stained glass websites

• photographing stained glass: some ideas

Upgrading for Broadband : This site is gradually being improved, with bigger, better pictures. For users on dial-up some pictures will now load more slowly.
Some big pictures are loaded via www.flickr.com

I am continuining to develop and (I hope) improve this site and the information base underlying it. If you can offer help in the form of photos, corrections or new information, please e-mail me, as follows:
(The o is a letter not a zero) then add:
[Sorry about that: just an attempt to limit the spam!]

I am very grateful for much help already received, along with some precious photos. Particular thanks to Mary Nottingham, my sister, to Peter Cormack of the William Morris Gallery for the original list of Tor's works and to Glennys Wild of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery for access to Marga's archive there.

Since the site launch in 2002, I have had many interesting contacts and I would particularly like to thank Dr. John Salmon for his expert photographic assistance: the site is much improved by his work from churches in London. These include churches in Dollis Hill, Grange Park, Highgate, Munster Square, Northolt Park and Wapping Lane. I apologise for any loss of quality due to my reducing file sizes: the originals are exquisite.

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This site is maintained by Arthur Rope, Marga's cousin and Tor's nephew.