Church Street Antiques

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Late 19thC Brass & Copper Floor Standing Cranberry Glass Oil Lamp by Jones & Willis Birmingham - mounted on a lacquered brass column set to a tri-form base with paw feet - Doty Light No 893' - fully working - 8" diam at lamp, 18" at the base, adjustable height from about 4' - 1875

Jones & Willis Newton, Jones & Willis - Birmingham & London church furnishers (fl.1847-1930)
Established in Birmingham c. 1847 the firm was originally called Newton, Jones & Willis. By 1858 they were known as Jones & Willis. By this date they held the royal warrant as silk mercers and over the next seventy-five years produced more than eighty illustrated catalogues of church furnishings, both textile & furniture.
In 1874 they were located at Temple Row in Birmingham, with showrooms at 43 Great Russell Street and workshops Stanhope Street, in London.
Jones & Willis were listed as church furniture makers, cabinet carvers & gilders and art metal workers at 16 Temple Row, Birmingham and 260 Euston Road & 43 Great Russell Street, London [The Furniture Gazette Directory, 1876] and as church decorators and furniture manufacturers (at the same addresses), with the works in Euston Road having expanded to 260, 262 & 264 in 1886 [The Furniture Gazette: Classified List of at the Furniture, Upholstery, and Allied Trades]. In 1914 they had works at Porchester Street, Birmingham, and Eagle Works in Hornsey, London, with their showrooms still at 43 Great Russell Street, London.
Jones & Willis had become a limited company in 1903 and in the early 20th century took over the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft.