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Our project supported the Margaret Rope Retrospective Exhibition – which ran in Shrewsbury for four months between September 2016 and mid January 2017.
‘Marga’ was one of the great ‘Later Arts & Crafts Movement’ stained-glass artists, her main career being from 1910-1935.
Her works can be seen in churches across three continents, and in museums in America.
She was born in Shrewsbury in 1882; and worked in London from 1911-1923, before spending the rest of her life in a convent.
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Sadly, Marga is largely forgotten – not only in art history, but even in her home-town of Shrewsbury (see Neglected By History).
However, slowly, slowly, a few enthusiasts are managing to raise her profile, and to try to get her reputation restored.
This website will keep you across the campaign to restore her work and reputation to the pre-eminence it deserves.
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Celebrating Margaret Rope - stained glass-artist 
What is Margaret’s connection with what was The Priory Grammar School for Boys in Shrewsbury? I write as an Old Priorian and haven’t noticed the blue plaque on the back of the building before.
Phil Bricknell
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Hi Phil
Thanks for the enquiry.
The Priory was the Ropes’ family home after Margaret’s father died.
See https://margaret-agnes-rope.co.uk/2018/11/14/blue-plaque-for-margaret/
Editor.
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Thank you for the link. I was interested to know that my old Grammar School was not a school until the 1950s.I think the building is dated from 1911 – that’s the date on the wall facing the swimming baths: I’d assumed it had been a Grammar School since then.
Margaret Rope was previously unknown to me. My partner and myself have been touring Shropshire’s Churches this year – we were in Shrewsbury Cathedral recently and so would have seen some of MR’s work.
Philip Bricknell (C.A.M.P. RECORDS).
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Strangely, I can find no reference on your site to her cousin, the other Margaret (Edith) Rope, also a stained glass artist. They sometimes worked together on commissions and I understand that when Marga was in the convent she would do the designs and her cousin Margaret, nickname Tor, would execute them.
If anyone is interested to see the work of “the other Margaret Rope” there are a number of windows in All Saints Church in the centre of Hereford. Some can be seen close up as they are on the wall of the cafe balcony.
Jill Persse Fenn
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Hi Jill. In fact there are a number of references to Margaret Edith on this website. Please see our ‘Articles’ page for a guide to them – https://margaret-agnes-rope.co.uk/articles/
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You can also find a very good guide to Tor’s work on http://www.arthur.rope.clara.net/
MR
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