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    • 1850's >
      • Wells Cathedral, Choir stalls
      • St Margarets, Angmering
      • Wells Cathedral, Pulpit
      • Wells Cathedral, Monument to Dean Jenkyns
      • St Margaret's Church, Angmering, Pulpit
      • Wells Cathedral, Organ
      • St Mary, Etchingham, pulpit
      • St Thomas's Church, Wells
      • Sherborne Abbey, Reredos
      • Sherborne Abbey, Stalls
      • St Mary's Church, Dunkeld
      • The Flora Fountain, Witley Court
      • Blenheim Palace Chapel
      • Church of St Peter and St Paul, Coleshill
      • St Mary's Church, Blymhill
    • 1860's >
      • St Dionysius church, Market Harborough
      • The Perseus and Andromeda Fountain, Witley Court
      • 29 Fleet Street, London
      • St Mary's, Singleton
      • Font at St Michael and All Angels Church
      • Pulpit of St Michael and All Angels, Witley Court
      • St Mary's, Deerhurst
      • Holy Trinity Church, Ventnor
      • St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick
      • St Leonard's Church, Bridgnorth
      • St Marys, Buckland St Mary, Somerset
      • Lincoln Cathedral, Memorial tomb
      • Weston Park, Staffordshire
      • St John's Chapel, Hurstpierpoint College
      • Kensal Green Cemetery, Monument to General Forster
      • St John the Baptist, Frome, Via Crucis
      • St Johns, Frome, Reredos
      • St Johns, Frome, Saints
      • Holyrood church, Southampton
      • Market place, Dudley
      • Stalls and Bishop's throne, Chichester Cathedral
      • Cloverley Hall, Shropshire
      • St Johns, Leeds
      • St Andrew's Church, Kelso
    • 1870's >
      • The Fearon Fountain, Loughborough
      • St Andrews, Hingham
      • Nave pulpit at Worcester Cathedral
      • St Wendreda's Church, March
      • St John's, Frome, Pieta
      • St John's, Frome, Medallions
      • St Mary's Church, Melbury Sampford
      • St Marys, Axminster
      • St Paul's cathedral, Memorial
      • Monument to Lord Lyttelton, Worcester Cathedral
      • Tyntesfield, Private Chapel
    • 1880's >
      • St Mary's, Buckland, Cross
      • St Peter's Church, Coggeshall
      • St Paul's cathedral, Afghan campaign
      • Sherborne Abbey, Digby monument
      • St James, Sussex Gardens, London
      • Monument to Bishop Fraser, Manchester Cathedral
      • St Mary's Church, Warwick
      • Monument to Earl of Dudley, Worcester cathedral
      • St Bartholomew's, Penn
      • St Mary's, Buckland, Reredos
    • 1890's >
      • Monument to Dean Elliot, Bristol Cathedral
      • Monument to Bishop Pelham, Norwich Cathedral
      • Monument to Bishop Atlay, Hereford
      • Sherborne Abbey, pulpit
  • William
    • 1850's >
      • St John the Baptist, Eastnor, Worcs
      • Malvern Parish School, Great Malvern
      • St Peter's, Bushley
      • St Mary's, Hanley Castle
    • 1860's >
      • Eastnor Castle Great Hall
      • St John the Baptist, Eastnor
      • St Peter & St Paul, Rock
      • St John the Evangelist, Storridge
      • Imperial Hotel, Malvern
      • Elmslie House, Malvern
      • Lloyds Bank, Worcester
      • Great Malvern Station
      • Holy Trinity, Stratford
      • Cross for Catholic area of Worcester Cemetery
      • Cirencester Corn Hall
      • Christ Church, Llanwarne
      • Fald stool, St Leonard's Newland
      • George Cornewall Lewis Monument
      • St Leonard's, Newland, Cross
      • St Laurence, Alvechurch, Boulton Memorial
      • St Swithin's, Worcester
      • Davenham Bank, Great Malvern
      • Wesleyan Chapel, Malvern
      • St John's Church, Feckenham
      • Wykeham House, Oxford
      • St Edburga's, Leigh, Worcs
      • Worcester Cemetery, Charles Hastings
      • Gloucs bank, Hereford
      • James Wilson memorial, Malvern
      • St Peter's Church, Upton on Severn
      • St Mary's, Dilwyn
      • St George's, Barbourne, Worcester
      • St Leonard's, Agnes Raymond
      • St Mary's church, Twyning
      • St Phillips, Hallow
      • St Nicholas, Droitwich, Font
    • 1870's >
      • St Mary's Church, Elmbridge
      • St John's Churchyard, Claines
      • St Nicholas, Droitwich, Pulpit
      • St James, West Malvern
      • Malvern Wells cemetery, Lucas Memorial
      • Oliver Mason monument, The Priory Church
      • Holy Trinity Church,Malvern
      • Christ Church, Catshill
      • St John's Church, Charlton
      • Malvern Cemetery buildings
      • Upton cemetery, Major Martin
      • Sir Henry Lambert, Malvern cemetery
      • Priory Court, Malvern
      • Holy Trinity, Malvern, pillars
      • Monument for Wheeley Lea Family, Powick
      • The Hoppickers, Worcester
      • St John's, Claines, William Mence
      • Brinton Fountain, Kidderminster
      • WB Williamson tomb, Astwood cemetery
    • 1880's >
      • St George's RC, Worcester, Altars
      • St Leonards, Newland,Columns
      • Marion Yorke grave, Worcester Cathedral cloisters
      • Worcester cemetery, Cross for Nash
      • Malvern cemetery, Tomb for Fisk
      • St James, Harvington, Woodward cross
      • St James, Harvington, Florence Mary
      • St Mary Magdalene, Worcester, Font
      • Compton Building, Worcester
      • Harriet Wood, Worcester Cathedral cloisters
      • Oakhampton House, Bust of Henry Crane
      • St Leonard's, Newland, Piscina
      • St Leonard's, Newland, Sedilia
      • St Mary's churchyard, Shrawley
      • Revd Barry grave, Worcester Cathedral Cloisters
      • St Helen's church, Worcester, Window for Dr Nash
      • 29th Regiment Memorial, Worcester Cathedral
      • Memorial to William Bourne
      • Dean Yorke Memorial, Worcester Cathedral
      • Oakhampton House, Chimney-piece
      • St Clements church, Worcester, Font
      • St Barnabas, Worcester
      • Wells school, Malvern
      • St John's, Claines, Beachamp tomb
      • St Bartholomew's, Grimley
      • Whitbourne Hall Lodge, Worcs
      • Allsopp Tomb, Hindlip Hall
      • Malvern cemetery, Cross for Roper Curzon
      • St James, Harvington, Cross for AHW Ingram
      • St Michael's, Stourport
      • Walter Holland Tomb, Astwood cemetery
      • Congregational Sunday School, Worcester
      • Perrins Family Tomb, Worcester
      • St John's Church, Claines, Cross for LJ Curtler
      • Reredos, St Marys, Welford
      • Co-Operative Society, Worcester
      • St Leonard's, Newland, Pulpit
      • St Peters church, Ombersley
      • Flora statue, Chateau Impney, Droitwich
    • 1890's >
      • Worcester cemetery, Lewitt memorial
      • St John's churchyard, Claines, Lavie memorial
      • Malvern Wells cemetery Chapel
      • St Clements church, Worcester, Reredos
      • St Clements Church, Worcester, screen
      • E.W.Elmslie Memorial
      • St Ann's Well, Malvern
      • Worcester Grammar School Extension
      • Tomb of Thomas Rowley-Hill, Astwood cemetery
      • Canon Douglas, Salwarpe
      • Pitchcroft Gates, Worcester
      • St Matthias, Malvern
    • 1900's >
      • Temperance Drinking Fountain, Malvern
      • John Corbett tomb, Stoke Prior churchyard
      • Cross for G.Shaw, St Matthias, Malvern Link
      • Cross, Malvern Wells
      • Hook Severn, Worcs, Bromley Memorial
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Jean Edwards ( nee Forsyth) Archive

Jean Edwards ( nee Forsyth) is the 95 year old surviving Daughter of William Aiden Forsyth. Her Grand-Father was William Matthew Forsyth the 6th child of William Forsyth the sculptor. She also happens to be my God mother

Jean started researching her family history some time in the 1960's and has kept all documents from that time. I have kept back personal notes made by Jean about the family tree, and also several letters from other family members but the rest I've scanned and present it below in several sections

I have decided to put all of this together as Jean is delighted that her work can be kept and looked at by a wider audience and I felt it deserved keeping together as one 'archive' rather than splitting it up onto various James and William pages

James Forsyth's 'missing' Andromeda statue

Jean was certain that a copy of the Andromeda figure from the Poseidon fountain at Witley court existed, and had been bought by an Australian musem. The following documents show her correspondence in the 1960's and the result of that search

Frederick Grice

Frederick Grice was a senior lecturer at Worcester Technology college and in the 1970's started upon some research into the Forsyth brothers. Possibly through the Dorothy Winwood articles published in the Worcester News in the late 1960's ( see further below) he got in contact with Jean and the below shows their correspondence. I have not added the finished article by Grice as it contains assumptions and opinions that are not wholly accurate following the research by myself, Elizabeth Moncrieff and David Patten

The Monumental Studio

J.G.Hunts was a shop at 59/60 The Tything, Worcester almost opposite William Forsyth's 'Monumental Studio'

The documents below were given to Jean ( see letter below) by a descendant of the Hunt's and show an original Invoice for work done in 1892, the receipt for monies recieved to settle this bill signed by William Forsyth and the original monogrammed envelope the receipt was posted in to Hunt's shop

The Changing face of Worcester website has THIS IMAGE and THIS IMAGE attributed to Hunt's shop and I am trying to ascertain if either of these are the shop mentioned above ( although there are attributed to a maybe later shop in the High Street) and if the 'Severn Salmon' lettering shown is what William did

Newspaper articles

It is interesting to see the articles from the 1960's that prompted the preservation of the Witley Court fountains. They contain, in mine and others opinion, many inaccuracies, as do the later articles but I have uploaded them all anyway as a record of what was reported over the years
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