‘Presented to the Rev John Patteson MA Rector of Christ Church Spitalfields’
A lovely fine quality Library Bookcase direct from the Patteson Family who were famous for their breweries. This has been with the family since it was purchased new and was removed from Hautbois House, Norfolk in the 1980’s. It is a lovely rich honey colour, and has four doors and adjustable shelves.
I have owned this since I purchased it from the Patteson family executors in the 1980’s. There is a silver plaque to the front center reading
‘The Rev John Patteson Rector of Christ Church Spitalfields & Rural Dean.By his congregation & friends, as a token of their affectionate regard & esteem & in remembrance of his zeulous & faithful labours during the last eleven years 21st May 1867 ’
A most impressive bookcase with an impeccable and interesting provenence.
Size: H260cm W46cm L183cm
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Christ Church Spitalfields, is an Anglican church built between 1714 and 1729 to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Situated on Commercial Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on its western border and facing the City of London, it was one of the first (and arguably one of the finest) of the so-called ''Commissioners'' Churches'' built for the Commission of Building Fifty New Churches, which had been established by an Act of Parliament in 1711.
The purpose of the Commission was to acquire sites and build fifty new churches to serve London''s new settlements. This parish was carved out of the huge medieval Stepney parish for an area then dominated by Huguenots (French Protestants and other ''dissenters'' who owed no allegiance to the Church of England and thus to the King) as a show of Anglican authority. Some Huguenots used it for baptisms, marriages and burials but not for everyday worship, preferring their own chapels
...(their chapels were severely plain compared with the bombastic English Baroque style of Christ Church) though increasingly they assimilated into English life and Anglican worship—which was in the eighteenth century relatively plain.
The Commissioners for the new churches included Christopher Wren, Thomas Archer and John Vanbrugh appointed two surveyors, one of whom was Nicholas Hawksmoor. Only twelve of the planned fifty churches were built, of which six were designed by Hawksmoor.
In 1793 John Patteson bought Charles Greeves’ brewery at Pockthorpe with a view to finding an occupation for his son. These innocuous beginnings laid the foundations for the firm of Steward & Patteson which by 1961 was one of the largest non metropolitan breweries in the country.
The brewery itself was originally knows as the Anchor Brewery but by the end of the 1850s it had been rechristened as the Pockthorpe Brewery by which time the business had built a large tied estate which included 183 Norwich pubs. In the following century they continued to expand often aggressively taking over competitors not for their breweries, which were subsequently closed, but for their tied estates. By 1960 they owned over 1250 tied houses.
In 1961, along with Bullards, the directors bought a half share in Morgans’ brewery. The two Norwich breweries split the tied estate between them and sold the brewery, which was superfluous to requirements, to Watney Mann. As part of the deal they entered into a trading agreement whereby Watney’s undertook to supply the Bullards’ and Steward & Patteson tied houses with keg beers such as ‘Red Barrel’. Before long Watneys were outselling the Norwich breweries in their own pubs.
The deal had also left Steward & Patteson financially stretched and after years of being the hunter the tables were turned. By 1963 Watney’s owned 17% of Steward & Patteson’s ordinary shares an
We are happy to obtain UK and international quotations. Please do not hesitate to contact.Antique Number: SA721310
Dateline of this antique is Victorian
Height is 260cm (102.4inches)Width is 183cm (72.0inches)Depth is 46cm (18.1inches)
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