Everything about Robert Bakewell Ironsmith totally explained
Robert Bakewell (
Uttoxeter,
1682 — 1752) was an English
smith. He took an
apprenticeship in
London as an iron worker and became an extremely skilled ironsmith.
In 1706, he started working at
Melbourne Hall for
Thomas Coke, and living in the town of
Melbourne. In the gardens at the hall, a wrought iron
arbour created by Robert Bakewell can still be seen today: it's known locally as 'the Birdcage'.
Following an affair with a local woman, Elizabeth Fisher, resulting in the birth of a son, Bakewell Fisher, he moved from Melbourne to Derby, where he set up a workshop and forge at Oake's Yard in St Peter's Street. Later, he married Mary Cokayne and had a family of three sons and three daughters. He died in
1752 and is buried in St Peter's Church,
Derby.
Examples of his work can be seen at
Derby Cathedral, where he made the
wrought iron rood screen and the gates at the west door. There are also wrought iron gates by Bakewell at the
Derby Industrial Museum, and ironwork by him in a number of churches in Derbyshire towns and villages:
Alvaston,
Ashbourne,
Borrowash,
Duffield,
Etwall,
Foremark,
Radbourne. In Leicestershire at
Staunton Harold church, a splendid screen by Bakewell can be seen.
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