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366
Description: Rectangular; astragal edging; shield motto and crest of the family of Lawrence.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: IN GOD IS MY TRUST
Arms: Lawrence
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: Guildhall, Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
(part of the Leicester City Museums museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
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387
Description: Arched rectangular shape; astragal edging. Shield, helm, crest and mantling of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths.
Notes: Blazon: Sable, a chevron Or between three hammers Argent handled and crowned with open crowns of the second; Crest: a phoenix in flames rising proper; arms granted in 1611.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Arms: Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- armorial
Manufactured: in the mid 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 1944.24.052 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Livery company firebacks
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430
Description: Fragment; to the left, rectangular panel with braid edging, vine standard with six bunches of grapes and a cluster at the top; to the right, rectangular panel with wide fillet edging, arched recess with three flower heads in low relief, four circular depressions in the arch spandrels; on top, a semi-circular panel with fillet edging, within which are the date between the initials, with scattered small rings, below is a pattern of eight linked circles; vestige of another semi-circular panel to the left.
Notes: Potentially a fragment of a large fireback, the vestage of a second semi-circular arched panel on top offers the possibility that several other panels originally existed further to the right. The two surviving panels combine elements from two separate sub-groups of firebacks that were moulded from individual, interchangeable panels, indicating that the sub-groups originated from a common source.
Inscription: I 1598 R
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- text
- plants
Manufactured: in 1598 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 1944.24.083 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Armada series
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438
Description: Rectangular with three sided arch; astragal edging; lion rampant crest beaneath a crown; the date split either side of the lion's head.
Notes: The evenness of the casting, the form of the crown and the lion all suggest that the date is spurious.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 16 39
- Decoration tags:
- rectangle with three-facetted arch (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the early to mid 20th century in England.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
(part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
- Date only firebacks
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475
Description: Composite of three elements; central panel has a complex ‘knot’ pattern with a fillet edge; side panel, repeated on either side of the central panel, contains a vase of flowers, possibly stylised thistles, within an arched frame and fillet edge; arched panel above, also with fillet edge, contains the date and inscription; the spandrels of the side panels, and the arched top panel, contain a series of circular motifs comprising concentric rings deepening towards the centre.
Notes: ‘Knot’ patterns were popular in gardens of the period. The garden theme is continued with the side panels. A version of the same design, recorded in a photograph of 1904 at Willesden, London, is a different casting, the top panel with the date and initials, being straight not slightly askew as in this example.
Inscription: 1598 / IM IB
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- text
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in 1598 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Linchmere, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Armada series
- Garden design types
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1077
Description: Canted rectangle; astragal edging (top and sides); symmetrically arranged, initials separated by overpressed, fillet edged stamp bearing letters WF surmounted by a bent arm holding a battleaxe issuing from a chapeau; beneath are two shields bearing the arms of Fowle.
Notes: The shield and crest stamps relate to William Fowle (1568-1634) and are those used on iron grave slabs in Wadhurst and Frant churches and in Maidstone museum, as well as on other firebacks. The initials have not been identified. A nearly identical casting has the shields positioned slightly differently.
Inscription: EC DT / WF
Arms: William Fowle, of Frant and Wadhurst
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- heraldic
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the early to mid 17th century probably at Riverhall furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Minster-on-Sea, Kent, England.
- Attached to series:
- Fowle series
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954
Description: Arched shape; patterned astragal edging; central shield with helm, crest and mantling above, and motto scroll below; initials either side of crest; date split by shield.
Notes: The arms are those of Chamberlayne: gules, an inescutcheon within an orle of mullets argent; the crest: out of a ducal coronet the head of an ass (the tinctures vary according to the branch of the family); the initials are reputed to be those of Thomas Chamberlayne; the date appears to have been hand inscribed. The style of the carving is the same as on two other firebacks in the same county.
Inscription: T C / 16 18 / [motto unreadable]
Arms: Chamberlayne
- Decoration tags:
- arched (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1618 possibly in the Herefordshire area of England.
Current location: Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, Herefordshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Herefordshire armorial series
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619
Description: Rectangular; astragal edging; leopard passant guardant sinister canted, facing a leopard passant, with a crowned shield between bearing the initials, KH, above a fleur-de-lys.
Notes: One of the Royal series with uncommonly few stamps.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: KH
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- animals
Manufactured: in the mid 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Royal series
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641
Description: Rectangular with arched top; astragal moulded edging (top and sides); top centre, shield, supporters, coronet and motto of the 1st Baron Ashburnham: (1st & 4th) gu. a fess between six mullets ar. (Ashburnham), (2nd) az. a lion rampant between eight fleurs de lys ar. (Holland), (3rd) erm. three crescents gu. (Kenn); on an escutcheon of pretence a chevron between three boys heads couped at the shoulders each entwined around the neck with a snake (Vaughan). Supporters: two greyhounds sa. their faces, breasts, and feet ar. collared and lined or; below left and right, a monogram of B and J with a baron’s coronet above.
Notes: John Ashburnham, who married Bridget Vaughan in 1677, was created baron in 1689. he died in 1710.
Inscription: LE ROY ET L’ESTAT
Arms: John, 1st Baron Ashburnham
- Decoration tags:
- arched (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved stamps
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late 17th to early 18th century probably at Ashburnham furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Ashburnham family firebacks
- Personal armorial firebacks
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685
Description: Rectangular with arched rectangular shaped top joined by cavetto curves; astragal edging; plain surface for the addition of other stamps or panels.
Notes: Used for armorials by the Dukes of Dorset.
- Decoration tags:
- arched canted rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- whole carved pattern
Manufactured: in the early 18th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, England.
Museum number: NT/KNO/M/67 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Dorset arms series
- Base boards