List of works of M.E.Aldrich Rope (Tor)

Arranged alphabetically by UK county, then by country internationally.

There are listings for Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Clwyd, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Dorset, Durham, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, London, Manchester, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Stirlingshire, Suffolk, Sussex, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Yorkshire
and
Australia, Malta, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Trinidad

Click on links to view windows; links in bold italics lead to higher quality images on external sites, especially www.flickr.com

Green italics show locations I have not visited or got colour photos from: help, please, with information and photos!
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Buckinghamshire

Eddlesborough: St Mary's (now a "redundant" church): 2 light (s) Nativity 1933

Lane End: Holy Trinity: 1 light (s) Annunciation & Nativity 1948: small window. (Photo courtesy of and copyright © Ian A Wood)

Cambridgeshire

Ely: Cathedral - Stained Glass Museum: 2 small panels: Franciscan Boy & a Vision of Heaven, The Visitation.

Ickleton: St Mary Magdalene: 3 light (e) Crucifixion with St Mary Magdalene and St Etheldreda 1929. (with thanks to theRevSteve: browse his flickr stream for more details)

Molesworth: St Peter's: 3 light (e) Christ in majesty with Nativity, Crucifixion, Light of the world 1929.

Clwyd

Wrexham: Holy Trinity, Esclusham: 2 light window 1950.

Cornwall

Polperro: St John the Baptist: 2 windows (s & e) "no man cometh .." 1956, Jesus & disciples, fishing themes 1959/60. (Photo courtesy of and copyright © Mark Chater. Browse photostream for many details)

Derbyshire

Chesterfield: St Mary & All Saints: 3 light (s) The Good Samaritan with Virgin & Child at centre (photo courtesy Evissa) 1953. Also details: left, centre, right top, right bottom

Dorset

Bournemouth: St John the Baptist, Moordown: 2 lights (w) Edward Jenner, Florence Nightingale.

Hinton Martel: St John's: 8 panel painted screen.

Durham

Roker: St Andrew's: A handsome church ("Cathedral of the Arts and Crafts movement") with many A&C masterpieces, including a ceiling mural by Macdonald Gill executed with Tor's assistance (reportedly). (Thanks to Ruth Burgess for supplying the photo and information about this exceptional church)

Hampshire

Hartley Wintney: St John the Evangelist; 4 lights (n) Carol themes 1939 photo courtesy of Graham Waterton

Herefordshire

Hereford: All Saints: Important location for Tor windows and open all day as a café: 6 windows: (e) 4 lights Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, Expulsion from Eden 1933, (lady chapel) 5 lights, detail, Virgin and Child with St Martin of Tours, St George 1933, (e) 3 lights St Anthony the Hermit 1947, (s) gallery window Nativity with children 1944, (s) clerestory 2 windows SS Joseph & David.

Hertfordshire

Bishop's Stortford: St Michael's: 2 windows in porch (s) SS Botolph & John of Beverley 1950.

Kent

Whitstable: All Saints: 2 light window (s) SS Christopher & Anne 1927.

Lancashire

Royton: St Paul's:The Annunciation with Joseph and John the Baptist 1929. Also entire window and details 1, 2, 3. [Thanks for a warm December 2010 welcome from several members of the congregation]

London

Bromley: SS Peter & Paul: Several 50s windows made for the postwar reconstruction - (e) 3 lights 1953, (n) 2 lights with rose 1959 [browse details], lancets in children's chapel 1, 2, 3, 4 (n). Also baptistry window (s) by Clare Dawson, Tor's student and friend; [browse details].(Photos copyright © Dr. John Salmon)

Chiswick: St Paul's: 3 2-light windows in Apse, 1955: St Peter [& browse details]: St Paul [& browse details]: SS Peter and Paul [& browse details]. (Photos copyright © Dr. John Salmon)

Fulham: All Saint's, Putney Bridge Road: Virgin & Child and scenes from Christ's early life: good.

Grange Park: St Peter's: (All photos copyright © Dr. John Salmon) Very many late-period Tor windows here: clerestory windows 1957-60: (n) 1, 2, 3, 4 and (s) 5, 6, 7, 8, ,chancel windows Scenes from Life of Christ 1960-3: (n) 1, 2 and (s) 3, 4 : , Lady chapel (n) "And Mary hath chosen that good part", 10 small windows on Saints themes (n), (w), (s) 1966-73, perhaps including Tor's last window. If the inscription is by Tor, she was at least 82 at the time. Also 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Haggerston: St Saviour's Priory: Entrance Hall: Two of the Saints series from next-door St Augustine's, now deconsecrated: SS Paul & Margaret: Sacristy: 2 lights Christ as infant, and as shepherd: fair: Chapel: Episodes from early life of Christ (3 windows excluding the annunciation which seems to have come from elsewhere).

Munster Square, near Gt. Portland Street: In the crypt, now a youth club, are many windows from St Augustine's Haggerston (see item above). Poorly lit and hard to photograph, the Saints series made the national press for its mixture of sacred and secular themes: St Anne (+ detail + another), St Leonard (+ detail + another), St Michael (+ detail), St Augustine (+ detail), St George, St Joseph (+ detail + another), Crowning of BVM, Madonna & child (+ detail + another).(All photos copyright © Dr. John Salmon)

Northolt Park: St Barnabas: East (1954), detail, general church interior (west), West (1957), details: Miriam and Moses, expulsion from Eden, Nativity, Baptism of Christ, crucifixion, Baptism, tortoise signature west window, ditto east window(All photos copyright © Dr. John Salmon)

Putney: Christ the King, Polish Church (RC) previously St John the Evangelist: N Chapel (e) Nativity, 3 lights 1951 (new information courtesy of Robert Eberhard)

Wapping Lane: St Peter's, London Docks: Important Anglo-Catholic church with many Tor windows: Rose (e) (with London Bells theme around edge ) S Peter, S Paul 1949: Good Shepherd (3 lights (e) 1954): left, centre, right: 4 circular windows (s) 1st 4 vicars: Lowder, Mackonochie, Suckling, Wainwright; 7 sacrament panels from St Augustine's, Haggerston: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. (All photos copyright © Dr. John Salmon)

Manchester

Ardwick: St Benedict's: Fine Victorian church now deconsecrated and housing the Manchester Climbing Centre: 3 light window in Lady chapel (e) Regina Coelorum, one light (s) St Francis 1935.

Norfolk

Quidenham: Carmelite Monastery
Many windows [click on links and browse in flickr] 16 clerestory windows designed by Marga, executed by Tor: ditto 6 roundels.

Oxfordshire

Oxford: SS Mary & John, Cowley Road: 3 lights colour, b&w, left, centre, right ("...bread from Heaven...") and one-light Virgin and Child.(All colour images courtesy of and copyright © Rex Harris: more details in his flickr photostream "Sheepdog Rex")

Shropshire

Somerset

Bicknoller: St George's: "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" 1952. (flickr images courtesy of David Cronin:whole window, maker's mark, donor's dog )

Stirlingshire

Falkirk: Christ Church: Window of 3 lights, 1929 Virgin & Child. Also 4 other windows c. 1935) in chancel, 1 x 2 lights, plus IHS and PX symbol windows

Suffolk

Barnby: St John the Baptist: (e) 1963 v.good example of later period work; also three painted roundels. [browse on flickr]

Blaxhall: St Peter's: charming porch window probably executed by Tor but designed by her aunt E.M.Rope. Possibly Marga did the right hand side panel.

Chediston: St Mary's: 1947 (s) SS George & Felix: main interest in background of local scenes .[browse in flickr for more details]

Earl Soham: St Mary's: (n) SS Edmund & Felix: last full-sized window, made at age 73.(left, right)

Kesgrave: Holy Family and St Michael Catholic Church: (e) 3 English martyrs, (s) Virgin & Child, Walsingham: v.good.

Leiston: St Margaret's: (n) 2 windows St Luke, St Matthew (memorial to her parents).

Little Glemham: St Andrew's: Memorial window , detail 1, detail 2

Sussex

Bolney: St Mary Magdalene: (s) Holy Sacraments.

Chichester: Bishop Otter College, Old Chapel: 2 windows: St Francis, Bishop Otter 1934.

Warwickshire

Coventry: St John's: (e) whole window : - her last large commission (see Leeds for her first). Annunciation, top half, bottom half. See also these excellent images from Aidan McRae Thomson top half, bottom half , whole window, detail

Royal Leamington Spa: St Mary's: (e) St Mary & the Risen Christ: similar to window in Trinidad. (Photo courtesy of and copyright © Mike Cox)

Wiltshire

Lydiard Millicent: All Saints': (s transept) a distinctive window with trees and birds, 1963: All Ye Works of the Lord Bless Ye the Lord. (photo copyright Colin & Liz Taylor)

Yorkshire

Leeds: St Chad's, Far Headingley: 1922 ("e") The Creation: Tor's first really large commission and arguably her greatest work. Details: Adam and Eve, Virgin & Child, angel lhs, angel rhs, lion, zebra, deer, camel, seal, band of angels, chaos, solar system, (find the angel!), flamingos, left hand light, central 3 lights, right hand light ... and the window in context. Studio photo of the whole window in black and white.

Australia

Geraldton, Western Australia: St Francis Xavier Cathedral.
Eight windows by the two cousins: between two and three are Tor's. (Photos courtesy of and copyright © John Taylor)

Mullewa, Western Australia: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and SS Peter & Paul: One light: "Pater Mi .." 1923: good. Details: upper, lower

Malta

South Africa

Capetown: St John's Church, Green Point: 4 roundels 1929: no other information, no photo: help please!

Ofcolaco, N.Transvaal: a 2 light window 1951: no other information, no photo: help please!

Sri Lanka

Passara: St Barnabas: A.H.Hall Memorial window: 2 lights 1953 - b/w studio photo, courtesy of Sara Hall. Can anyone supply a colour photo, please?

Trinidad

Port of Spain: St James the Just, Sangre Grande: late 1920s: 1 round (The Ascension) and 2 arched windows (The Nativity,the Magi) + 2 others (The Resurrection, The Victory of St George over the Dragon). New information: The Ascension believed lost (earthquake damage) but new colour images have arrived of Nativity, St George and the church

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.

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