The Monument to Samuel Peploe by Henry Cheere in Chester Cathedral.

Samuel Peploe (1667 - 1752).

Peploe was Bishop of Chester from 1725.

This exceptional mural monument has for some reason fallen below the radar.

It is not inscribed but has all the hallmarks of a work of Henry Cheere (1703 - 81).

The shaped apron is seen frequently in Cheere's monuments as is the use of expensive coloured marble veneers.

It is not mentioned in the Biographical Dictionary....... Pub Yale 2009.

Another monument that would be dramatically improved with a gentle wash.

The Coalfired Gurney Stoves probably substantially contributed to the surface dirt on this and other monuments in the Cathedral.

https://www.dawleyheritage.co.uk/unpublished-articles/262/Biography

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Samuel Peploe.

Anonymous.

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Samuel Peploe.

1733.

J. Faber.

Mezzotint. 

after Hamlet Winstanley.

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The Gurney Patent Stove.

'Gurney's Patent, The London Warming & Ventilating Company'.

Patented 1856.

Goldsworthy Gurney (1793 - 1875).

A number of these stoves are still in use to this day, in amongst others, the cathedrals of Worcester, Ely, Durham, Peterborough and Hereford.

Gurney sold the rights to the London Warming & Ventilating Company, who continued to produce the heater well into the twentieth century. One of its key features was that the ribs on its exterior stood in a shallow trough of water, thus humidifying the air as well as warming it.

The stove burned anthracite, although some were later converted to other fuels (Hereford Cathedral's heaters became gas-firing in 1989).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK0SwS-lGQk