page_title: John Abel
hierarchical_section_title: John Abel
caption_attribution_description: English: The Grange, Leominster. This attractive "Magpie" building is the old town hall. It was built in 1633 but removed in 1855 and now stands in a small park just east of the town centre.
context_page_description: John Abel was an English carpenter and mason, granted the title of 'King's Carpenter', who was responsible for several notable structures in the ornamented Half-timbered construction typical of the West Midlands.
  John Abel was born in Sarnesfield, Herefordshire. He was a Catholic recusant, along with his wife Johanna. In 1618 he was brought before a church court to answer for his recusancy and also for his secret marriage to Johanna. The case against him was eventually dismissed, but his name can be found on a list of Catholic recusants from 1640.
  Abel married twice, but there is no record of his second wife except on his table tomb in Sarnesfield. He had one son, named John, who later became churchwarden of Sarnesfield.
context_section_description: John Abel (1578/79 – January 1675) was an English carpenter and mason, granted the title of 'King's Carpenter', who was responsible for several notable structures in the ornamented Half-timbered construction typical of the West Midlands.
  John Abel was born in Sarnesfield, Herefordshire. He was a Catholic recusant, along with his wife Johanna. In 1618 he was brought before a church court to answer for his recusancy and also for his secret marriage to Johanna. The case against him was eventually dismissed, but his name can be found on a list of Catholic recusants from 1640.
  Abel married twice, but there is no record of his second wife except on his table tomb  in Sarnesfield. He had one son, named John, who later became churchwarden of Sarnesfield.
caption: The Grange at Leominster, designed and built by John Abel
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