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Local Church discovery

September 25, 2024

Local Church discovery
During a visit to the local St. Laurence Church in the Shambles at Stoud Gloucesteshire a pair of kneelers were discovered in the Chancel largley forgotten about even to the former Church Warden. The two were made in Co. Donegal just after WWI in what would have been the newley nationalised Killybegs Mill formally owned by the Scottish indiustrialist Alexander Morten and known as the Donegal Carpet Company. The two identical size runners have been woven across what would have been the width of a very wide loom and cut down to two equal sized pieces converse to what might have been be assumed across the narrow width. According to the label the pair were obtained as the result of a commission via the furnishing store J.H. Wilkes of King Street Stroud ( town centre )1908 - 1930. Being listed members of the National Churches Trust we are now engaged to bring about some minor restorations and clean the runners which by the looks of things has not been done for one hundred years. When returned it is likly they will be replaced to the alter step with non slip underlay.

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Shortly to open 21 July 2026, we are currently engaging in the working up and provisions of carpet services to the visitor centre at this famous house on the outskirts of London. Termed 'House of Secrets', the house also known as Trent Park House, played an important role in WWII along with Bletchley Park in wartime covert surveillance. It hosted senior German officer prisoners of war, who were eavesdropped upon whilst enjoying the comparative freedoms of the gardens and grounds, with the odd whiskey to get tongues wagging...

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Following a discovery of a pair of 1920s Donegal kneeler runners at the local town parish church of St. Laurences in September 2024 work was commissioned to rejuvenate the carpet and brassware on the steps leading leading from the Nave to the Chancel.  The task was tricky as the brassware and fittings were all in a poor state and the carpet was starting to unravel and therefore needed binding not to mention fixings into marble steps !.  The result was splendid and fully deserving of  the not inconsiderable effort for what might otherwise have appeared a straightforward task. 

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Clive Rogers

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Fromeside, Stroud
Gloucestershire GL5 3JX

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