Chris Beetles Gallery

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Steeple Bumpstead

Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989)

Price

£1,450

Signed

Signed with initials and inscribed with title and 'Near Chelmsford'

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

6 x 4 ¾ inches

Provenance

The Estate of S R Badmin

Illustrated

Clifford Bax, Highways and Byways in Essex, London: Macmillan and Co, 1939, page 117

Exhibited

'S R Badmin RWS, Paintings, Drawings & Prints', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2015, no 99;
'A Century of British Art: 1900-1945', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, June-July 2021, no 144

'A mile or two north of Hempstead we find ourselves at the Bumpsteads. In spite of their comic names,
they are highly serious villages. Steeple is, perhaps, rather more impressive than Helions, but that is partly because the tower of the church at Helions tumbled down in 1812. "Helions", we are told, is a word derived from "Tihel the Breton who held the manor in 1085": "Steeple", surprisingly enough, seems to take its prefix not from any connection with its church, but rather from a stepel or tower "probably belonging to some ancient stronghold near Haverhill, where the remains of an ancient earthwork are still to be seen " (G. Worley).'
Clifford Bax, Highways and Byways in Essex, page 116

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