page_title: Robert Mawer
section_title: St Cuthbert, Ackworth, 1855
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Mawer / Works / St Cuthbert, Ackworth, 1855
caption_attribution_description: St Cuthbert, Ackworth, West Yorkshire, England. Restored in 1852-54 after a fire. The 15th century tower remains. Some carving by Robert Mawer. Dated by quality of image and type of tinting and the writing on the glass plate.
context_page_description: Robert Mawer was an architectural sculptor, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He specialised in the Gothic Revival and Neoclassical styles. He created the Neoclassical keystone heads on St George's Hall, Bradford and on Moorland's House, Leeds, and was working on the keystone heads at Leeds Town Hall when he died. He was a founding member of the Mawer Group of Leeds architectural sculptors, which included his wife, Catherine Mawer, his son Charles Mawer, and his apprentices William Ingle, Matthew Taylor and Benjamin Payler, who all became sculptors with their own careers. Many of the buildings enhanced with sculpture by Robert Mawer are now listed by Historic England.
context_section_description: This is a Grade II listed building in Ackworth, West Yorkshire. St Cuthbert's was a 15th-century church, of which the nave was reordered in 1852, and the old tower remains. It was restored by John West Hugall between 1852 and 1854. The east window of 1855, and possibly all the others which are of the same date, is by William Wailes.
  
  In 1855, the Leeds Intelligencer said: 
  "The church has recently been re-opened after a most careful, and solid restoration. The carving of the capitals, and of the angels in the chancel and chancel aisle, the exquisite workmanship of the late lamented Mr Mawer, afforded much gratification."(Leeds Intelligencer 1 September 1855)
   Media related to Saint Cuthbert Church (Ackworth, West Yorkshire) at Wikimedia Commons
caption: St Cuthbert's before 1914
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