Steyning
Steyning
£750
The Old Workhouse, Steyning, West SussexInscribed lower left: Old Union Steyning July 57Watercolour over pencil249 by 359 mm., 9 ¾ by 14 in.Provenance:Private Collection, Norfolk This shows the old workhouse on Mouse Lane, Steyning. The building still exists as privately owned cottages. This watercolour shows the roof partly thatched and partly tiled (Stark's inscription `Chaume' is another word for `thatch') whereas a photo of the early 1900s shows it all tiled, as it is still today. Steyning is five miles north-west of Shoreham in West Sussex){kind=link}
James Stark (1794-1859)
The Old Workhouse, Steyning, West Sussex
Inscribed lower left: Old Union Steyning July 57
Watercolour over pencil
249 by 359 mm., 9 ¾ by 14 in.
Provenance:
Private Collection, Norfolk
This shows the old workhouse on Mouse Lane, Steyning. The building still exists as privately owned cottages. This watercolour shows the roof partly thatched and partly tiled (Stark's inscription `Chaume' is another word for `thatch') whereas a photo of the early 1900s shows it all tiled, as it is still today.
Steyning is five miles north-west of Shoreham in West Sussex