List of works by Margaret Agnes Rope ("Marga")
Arranged alphabetically by UK county, then by country internationally.
Listings
for Cheshire, Dyfed, Gwent,
Hertfordshire, Lanarkshire,
Lancashire, London, Norfolk,
Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Suffolk,
Surrey, Yorkshire
and
Australia, Italy, South
Africa, USA
Click
on links to view windows; links in
bold italics lead to higher quality
images on external sites, especially www.flickr.com. Other
links lead to old pre-digital pre-Broadband images.
Green
italics show locations I have not visited or got colour photos
from: help, please, with information and photos!
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Window
commentaries © copyright by Roger Hall:
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Birkenhead,
Latchford & Oxton,
Cheshire; Upholland,
Lancashire; Newport & Shrewsbury,
Shropshire; Blaxhall, Suffolk,
Oxted, Surrey
and Rome
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These
descriptions give an indication of the intense research that lay behind
the details in many of Marga's windows.
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Cheshire
Birkenhead: Catholic church of the Holy Name, Oxton
There are some really important Marga windows here: St
Winefride & St
Therèse of Lisieux, English
martyrs of the Shrewsbury diocese, Lindon Memorial window, 3 lights:
St John
the Baptist, St
Mary, St
Elizabeth. Whole
window Download
full description of the English Martyrs window (pdf format) © copyright
by Roger Hall here
Birkenhead: Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception: Annunciation (lost in bombing raid, March 1941) Download full description of this window (pdf format) © copyright by Roger Hall here
Hoylake:
St Hildeburgh's:
Memorial window to James H Getty (Thanks to Jan Rance for
finding a "new" window via Barrie and Wendy Armstrong's book "The
Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England", pub. Oblong Creative
of Wetherby,2005)
Latchford, Warrington: Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church (closed). 2 windows (2 lights each) English Martyrs (B.John Finch, B.James Bell, 1932; SS John Fisher and Thomas More, 1939) Download full descriptions of the windows (pdf format) © copyright by Roger Hall here: Finch & Bell window, Fisher & More window
Sale: St Joseph's. A series of painted panels: 18 on individidual Catholic English Martyrs around the chancel walls (click here and browse > in flickr) and two pairs of panels in the North and South aisles: Annunciation, Nativity, a Nun's Communion, a Nun's Vision
Stockport:
Our Lady and the Apostles Catholic Church
One 3-light window behind the altar: The
Holy Family (1930s).Centre
detail
Llandovery:
Our Lady's Catholic church
Charming
memorial window to Marga's nephew and niece, who died in childhood.
Lower half,
enlarged.Upper
half, ditto The adjoining window, also in the Arts and Crafts style,
is a memorial to their
father, but not by Marga or Tor but by J.E.Nuttgens.
Llanarth:
St
Mary & St Michael's Catholic church, Llanarth Court
2 windows-
St Francis
& St
Bernard
Letchworth
Garden City: St Hugh of Lincoln R.C. church
St
Francis early window c. 1908
Lanark:
St Mary's
Parable
of the Prodigal Son, 1915 One of my favourite windows by Marga:
follow the story from details in the window: 1:The
Prodigal sets out from the farm for the bright lights of the city,
2:"..
wasted his substance with riotous living", 3:"..the
husks that the swine did eat", 4:"
.. kill the fatted calf", 5:"
.. one sinner that repenteth", 6: Father
and Prodigal Son dine but look who isn't happy! Also: Noah's
Ark
Christ in Gethsemane and the Crucifixion, including details: 1:
The
Last Supper: Judas (left) with his money in hand, 2: The
disciples sleep during... 3: The
Agony in Gethsemane as the soldiers arrive with Judas. 4: The
Crucifixion. Also: 5: A
woman dries Christ's feet with her hair and 6: The
pelican, symbolic of Christ's sacrifice
Lanark:
Hospital (perhaps St Mary's Hospital, now council offices)
One window: Our Lady, "Virgo Potens". Does anyone have any information
on where this might be? Can anyone provide a photo?
Upholland: St Joseph's College (now deconsecrated and derelict. West end of chapel holds a multiple window in complex tracery portraying the Church in sacrament and teaching. Designed and made in the late 1930s after Sister Margaret won a design competition for this difficult collection of shapes. At last an excellent image © copyright by scrappy nw Download full description of the window (pdf format) © copyright by Roger Hall here
Clapham:
St Mary's (Our Lady of Victories)
One 3 light-window (west end) The
Holy Family;[Christchild's face not original For image
details click on St
Joseph and browse in flickr]; 3 lancets in a locked room, once a
chapel: Crucifixion,
Virgin
and Child, Blessed
Sacrament. Or browse in flickr from
here backwards
Marble
Arch: Tyburn Convent
Ten panels incorporating 20 roundels commemorating the Tyburn martyrs, with
themes of the Beatitudes
and the Corporal
Works of Mercy. [Click on a link and browse in flickr] See
also these (browse series)
Quidenham:
Carmelite Monastery
The general public cannot see her five fine panels on the history of Carmelite
foundations that are in the enclosure St
Teresa, St
Joseph (Avila del Rey),
the Holy Trinity (Notting Hill), Nativity
(Paris), Magnificat
(Woodbridge) but her designs (executed by her cousin, Tor) can be
seen in many
windows in the chapel.[click on link then browse in flickr]
Clifton
Hampden:
Lancet: St
George and the Dragon A rare example of a Marga window in an Anglican
church.
Newport:
SS Peter & Paul Catholic Church
Five large and important early windows here (1912-16) - St
Peter, detail,
his
crucifixion, St
Paul, detail,
Nicholas
and detail,
& St
Winefride and detail.
Our
Lady, Help of Christians after restoration by Holy Well Glass, Wells,
Somerset - and detail.
Before restoration for comparison: Our
Lady, Help of Christians and detail
(face not original) Much of interest in the background detail and the lower
panels. 1,
2,
3
Download
full descriptions of the windows (pdf format) © copyright by Roger Hall
here: St Peter,
St Paul, Our
Lady Help of Christians, St
Winefride, St Nicholas
Shrewsbury:
Cathedral Church of Our Lady and St Peter of Alcantara
A great concentration of important windows from the 1910s,20s and 30s: the
Great West window, 6
large lights(detail) and much tracery; The
Visitation and St Cecilia (3 lights, s), tracery
detail, whole
window, Life
of St Laurence (3 lights & tracery, sanc.s), The
Seminary Martyrs (formerly Congress) Window (opposite St Laurence,
matching) Details: left,
centre,
right,
The Soldier
window (Sacred Heart chapel), Baptistry
window(w) detail
and, inaccessible to the general public, in
the Sacristy, St Ambrose. Or see this
image by Aidan McRae Thomson and click on "older" to browse
among many details of these windows. In the entrance to the cathedral is a small
carved and painted
war memorial, also by Marga. Download full
descriptions of the following windows (pdf format) © copyright by Roger
Hall here: The
Great West Window, The
Seminary Martyrs Window (formerly Congress Window), St
Laurence window, Soldier Window,
Visitation Window, Baptistery
window, St Ambrose
Note: the latest re-naming of the misnamed Congress window to be "Seminary
Martyrs window" is on the authority of annotations by the artist herself
on a cartoon for the window held by the Margaret Rope archive.
Shrewsbury: Museum - on loan from a private owner: Judith (c.1906) a small panel illustrating a moment in the tale of Judith and Holofernes
Shrewsbury: St Mary's. In the south aisle Lady Chapel is a carved and painted altar front by Marga. She was a worshipper in this church in her Anglican days.
Blaxhall:
St Peter's
The east
window, 1913, the Nativity with Saints, is a memorial to her paternal
grandparents, who lived in the parish, and other family members. As usual, there
is much of interest in the background detail as well as the main figures. As
is typical of Marga, these have characterful faces, drawn from models. St
Michael, for example, is modelled by her brother, as elsewhere (see
next entry). Details: Blessed
Virgin & child,
SS Peter & Michael, St
Joseph, St
Luke, Central
section) Also charming
porch window, right hand panel by Marga, left hand side by Tor.
Based on a design by her aunt, E.M.Rope
Download full description of the East window (pdf format)
©
copyright by Roger Hall here:
East window: Holy Family with evangelists
and saints.
Kesgrave:
Holy Family and St Michael
Catholic Church
Founded as a memorial to her brother Michael, killed in the crash of the airship
R101 and containing many interesting and impressive works by Marga and her cousin,
Tor. David
and Isaiah,(2
lights,e), St
Margaret window (porch) and detail
1: Theresa of Avila, detail
2: The Trinity with Christchild and St
Catherine window (porch) and detail:
Sister of Charity, the
Holy Family & St Michael (3-light above the original altar);
St Dominic
(w), detail,
SS John
Fisher and Thomas More (w); Holy
Saturday Processional (in the "Galilee") shows members
of Marga's family; Our
Lady and the Christchild (n), originally by Marga, revised as her
memorial by Tor. The church also contains cartoons and other
works by Marga.(with thanks to Imogen Radford for many of the photos here)
Oxted:
All Saints
Lancet window of St
Hedwig. Commentary
© copyright by Roger Hall (downloadable pdf file)
Yorkshire,
West Riding
Heckmondwike: Church of the Holy Spirit
Three circular windows in East end St
John, St
George, Holy
Spirit (photos copyright © and courtesy of Julia Smith,
with thanks for finding "new" windows)
Geraldton,
Western Australia: St Francis Xavier Cathedral.
Eight windows by the two cousins: Marga's include Janua
Coeli (war memorial window) detail one,
two,
and Rosa
Mystica details one,
two,
News of
the Resurrection (detail: sleeping
guards) and Bishop
Kelly memorial window. (Photos courtesy of and copyright
© Peter Ledger) see also this
Mullewa, Western Australia: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and SS Peter & Paul: one light: Gloria in excelsis
Rome:
Venerable English College
One window (single light): St
Ralph Sherwin Commentary
© copyright by Roger Hall (downloadable pdf file)
Balgowan,
near Pietermaritzburg: Michaelhouse School chapel
Seven fine lancet windows, early 1920s, mostly war memorials- Samuel
as a boy in the temple, David
as a shepherd boy, St
Michael, Virgin
and Christchild, Angel
Gabriel, John
the Baptist as a boy, a
lad carrying loaves and fishes: excellent. (Photo courtesy
of and copyright © Anthony Nicholson)
Randfontein:
St John the Divine
"This do and thou shalt live" memorial window. Can anyone provide
a photo, please?
Two
panels, once in the hands of a Canadian collector, were sold at auction to US
museums in 2014. The
Well of Love is at the Los Angeles County Museum and an
early version of Goblin Market is at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York. A
later work by the same name is in a private collection in the UK.
If you have any comments, corrections or additions or if you can help provide a colour photo of locations in green, please e-mail me at the address on here.
