Preston Church

Catalogue

West wall of church with dark tree at left. Village buildings and vegetation. Left lower margin a curved structure. Open area front and right of church.

Date

1945

Object type

drawing

Medium and materials

pencil on paper

Dimensions

124x167mm

Place Made

Dorset, England

Inscriptions

LL pencil Flora Scales 1945

LR pencil Preston Church

Verso (in Marjorie Hamersley's hand) Hamersley

Current Collection

Private Collection

Current Location

New Zealand

Keywords

landscape format landscape drawing church churchyard England village buildings trees middle years Preston Dorset

Original owner Patience Tennent, the artist’s niece.

Flora Scales visited Preston, England, with her mother in 1945. Port of Weymouth Bay [BC025] was probably also painted during this visit to Dorset.

This is a drawing of St Andrew’s Church, a 14^th-century building in the village of Preston near Weymouth, South Dorset, England. There are memorials in the churchyard to Scales’s maternal relatives. Scales's great grandfather, the Reverend Octavius Piers, was Vicar of Preston for thirty two years until his death in 1848, aged fifty-nine. There is a white marble tablet on black marble ground, on the North chancel wall to Octavius Piers, by 'Haggett'.

Image taken from 6x4 reproduction originally taken by B. de Lange, Rotorua Masonic Village, New Zealand, 1983. Flora Scales was a resident here from 26 October 1978 until just before her death in January 1985.