page_title: Benjamin Payler
section_title: Former London and Yorkshire Bank, Barnsley, 1892
hierarchical_section_title: Benjamin Payler / Works by Benjamin Payler / Former London and Yorkshire Bank, Barnsley, 1892
caption_attribution_description: Former London and Yorkshire Bank, Church Street, Barnsley. The foundation date is unknown. It was altered in 1892 with a new carved stone doorway designed by Wade &amp; Turner, and carved by Benjamin Payler. It was then at least partially rebuilt in 1903, including the doorway.
context_page_description: Benjamin Payler, was a sculptor, stone and marble mason. He was apprenticed to Catherine Mawer, alongside fellow apprentices Matthew Taylor and Catherine's son Charles Mawer. He formed a business partnership at 50 Great George Street with Charles Mawer in 1881. There is no known record of Charles after that. Payler continued to run the business there under his own name. In his day, he was noted for his 1871 bust of Henry Richardson, the first Mayor of Barnsley, his keystone heads on the 1874 Queen's Hotel in the same town, and his architectural sculpture on George Corson's 1881 School Board offices, Leeds. Payler was a member of the Mawer Group, which included the above-mentioned sculptors, plus William Ingle.
context_section_description: The former London and Yorkshire Bank, Church Street, Bansley, South Yorkshire, was altered in 1892 by architects Wade & Turner. Payler was entrusted with some carved work for the doorway. The carved stones arrived at Barnsley on Friday 29 October 1892. However, due to a mason's strike, Payler had to send two or three men from Leeds to fix the stones in place. They completed the work "slowly" because they could not be assisted by Barnsley men.
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caption: Former L & Y Bank. After its 1903 rebuild; probably nothing of Payler's work remains
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