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25-650: Chalford is a large village in the Frome Valley of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire , England. It is to the southeast of Stroud about four miles (six kilometres) upstream. It gives its name to Chalford parish , which covers the villages of Chalford, Chalford Hill, France Lynch, Bussage and Brownshill , spread over two square miles (five square kilometres) of the Cotswold countryside. At this point

50-421: A community plan to reintroduce donkeys as a way of carrying shopping up the steep, narrow hills became public. On 5 September 2009 Chalford Community Stores allowed customers to purchase shares in the business. The store, which has been running with the aid of a volunteer workforce since 2003, is now affiliated with the independent organisation Co-operatives UK, making the share issue possible. On 4 March 2012

75-649: Is home to the Monastery of Our Lady and St Bernard, a community of eight Bernardine Cistercian nuns. There is a sister community at the Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning at Warton , near Carnforth . St Mary of the Angels is a small Roman Catholic church built at Brownshill in the 1930s with funds from two former nurses, Bertha Kessler and Katherine Hudson. The architect was W. D. Caroe , with windows by Douglas Strachan . The valley from Chalford to Stroud, known as

100-480: The Thames and Severn Canal . (The others are at Coates, Cerney Wick, Marston Meysey and Inglesham.) A notable feature is that access is by way of steps up to the first floor as the ground floor would have originally been stabling for a horse. Apart from a relatively short break in the 1950s when it was a museum it has fulfilled its function as a private residence, which it continues to do to this day. Directly opposite

125-548: The 17th and 18th centuries brought quality silk and woollen cloth manufacturing to the valley. Some say that they gave their name to the neighbouring village of France Lynch. It is more likely that the name comes from a non-conformist chapel, France Meeting that was displaced from the village in the valley to the Lynches above. At this point the Golden Valley is narrow and deep so many weavers' cottages were built clinging to

150-494: The Chalford workshop with Waals lasted from five to six years, and apprentices were on trial for three months without pay. One such apprentice was New Age thinker Sir George Trevelyan who died in the bed he made there. Furniture produced during this period now features in exhibitions and catalogues of leading art houses and auction rooms. In 1935 Waals was invited to act as consultant in design at Loughborough College which

175-827: The Golden Valley, is one of Stroud's Five Valleys ; it carries the Stroud-Swindon railway (known informally as the Golden Valley line) and the Thames and Severn Canal towards the Cotswolds . River Frome, Stroud Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 251852537 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:52:36 GMT Peter Waals Born in The Hague to Jan van der Waals and Lena Alida Maria Loorij, Peter Waals

200-596: The Round House is Chalford Place, a Grade II* listed building built on the site of the original home of the de Chalkfordes who are mentioned in documents as early as 1240. The house, formerly known as the Companys Arms, is one of the earlier houses in the valley. Built as a mill owner's house it became an inn in the 19th century. It owed its name Companys Arms to the East India Company for which

225-593: The United States of America. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called Gimson "the greatest of the English artist-craftsmen." After Gimson's death in 1919 Peter Waals continued to run the Daneway Workshops. By the end of the year he was canvassing potential clients in his own name on Daneway headed paper The following year he was able to set up his own workshop at Halliday's Mill with

250-466: The area as well as the remains of a Roman Villa . Several of the place names in the area are also Anglo-Saxon in origin. The name Chalford may be derived from Calf ('Way') Ford , or possibly from the Old English cealj , or 'Chalk', and Ford (river crossing point). There were two ancient crossings at Chalford apart from the ford from which the village was named: Stoneford, recorded from

275-583: The civil parish but a separate ecclesiastical parish has a splendid listed church, St John the Baptist, built by George Frederick Bodley who went on to build Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. One of the most distinctive, and most photographed, features of the village is the Round House. It was built by the Thames and Severn Canal Company as a lengthman 's cottage and is one of five along

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300-526: The contours of a hill. Chalford Lynch and its extension France Lynch originated in the late 16th century as collections of stone cottages many built illegally on the peripheries of Bisley common as the mill expansion in the valley outstripped accommodation space in the valley. Many dwellings in France Lynch and Chalford Hill only became legitimate at the time of the parliamentary enclosures in 1869. The settling of displaced Flemish Huguenot weavers in

325-522: The help of Alfred James, at the foot of Cowcombe Hill in the nearby village of Chalford , employing many of Gimson's skilled craftsmen including designer Norman Jewson . Chalford was a more practical location for a workshop than Sapperton, since it was close to a railway station and had more accessible roads. Many examples of his own work, and that produced by other craftsmen in his workshop, can be found in Christ Church there. They include

350-400: The later 12th century, was the crossing-point of a track up Cowcombe hill on the line of the later Cirencester turnpike and by 1413 another track crossed into Minchinhampton by Stephen's bridge at Valley Corner. Chalford Hill is a recent title for the western end of the hill: Its original name was Chalford Lynch. "Lynch" ( lynchet in modern English) means a cultivated terrace following

375-410: The mills of Chalford supplied much of its cloth. It remained an inn until the 1960s when it reverted to its former name of Chalford Place. The house lay derelict for many years until it was recently purchased and is now being restored by the artist Damien Hirst . The mill race of Ashmeads Mill remains; the mill itself was demolished in the early 1900s. In February 2008, Chalford hit the headlines when

400-476: The organ gallery, the chancel screen and the lectern, all of which were designed by Jewson. The cover of the font , which lifts and descends by means of a counterbalance in the roof space, was carved by one of Waals' craftsmen, Owen Scrubey. From 1920 to 1937 the workshop produced high quality furniture to Waals' and Jewson's designs and also trained apprentices in the Arts and Crafts tradition. An apprenticeship at

425-417: The sides of the hills, giving the village an Alpine air. It is sometimes still referred to as the 'Alpine village'. As the paths on the hillsides were too narrow for more conventional forms of transport donkeys were used to carry groceries and other goods to houses, this tradition continuing until as recently as the 1950s. Chalford expanded rapidly with the opening of the Thames and Severn Canal in 1789 and

450-508: The store and the donkey were featured in an episode of Countryfile . The store prospered within the local church hall but returned to the High Street in May 2014 and now thrives in the former Seventh Day Adventist Hall. This was made possible by a second community share issue which raised in excess of £50,000 alongside a bank loan and various grants. Notable residents include James Bradley ,

475-614: The third Astronomer Royal , who died in Chalford in 1762, and the 19th-century sculptor John Thomas . Henry Cooper lived in the village as a child, after being evacuated to Chalford during the Second World War. The artist Damien Hirst has a studio in the village. Lord Janvrin , former Private Secretary to Elizabeth II , maintains a house in the village and on his retirement was gazetted as Baron Janvrin of Chalford Hill, on 10 October 2007. The Public Relations guru Mark Borkowski lives at Oakridge. The sub-village of Brownshill

500-617: The valley is also called the Golden Valley . An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward covers a similar area to the parish but extends to the Brimscombe and Thrupp ward. The total population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 6,509. The remains, and known sites of many barrows indicate that the plateau area of Chalford Hill, France Lynch and Bussage has been an area of continuous settlement for probably at least 4,000 years. Stone Age flints have been found in

525-434: The village became one of the centres for the manufacture of broadcloth and badger pelt farms. Its wealthy clothiers lived close to their mills and built many fine houses which survive to this day. In common with other towns and villages in the area, buildings are generally constructed of Cotswold stone , with local fields enclosed by dry stone walling . The area is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and

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550-527: The village itself is a designated conservation area . Chalford is noted for two fine Arts and Crafts movement churches. Christ Church ( Church of England ) contains work by Norman Jewson , William Simmonds, Peter Waals , Edward Barnsley , Norman Bucknell, amongst other distinguished artists and craftsmen working in the Cotswold tradition. The Church of Our Lady of the Angels ( Roman Catholic ), Brownshill, by W. D. Caroe (1930), contains outstanding stained glass by Douglas Strachan . France Lynch, part of

575-510: Was offered the position of foreman/manager and chief cabinet maker and accepted, spending the rest of his life in the Cotswolds . The furniture and craft work produced by the workshop under the day-to-day supervision of Waals is regarded as a supreme achievement of the Arts and Crafts movement of its period and is well represented in the principal collections of the decorative arts in Britain and

600-600: Was the main centre for the training of handicraft teachers in England. There, Waals instructed students in the approach and high standards of craftsmanship required in the making of furniture that had been established by Ernest Gimson and the Barnsley brothers in Sapperton. He also designed all the furniture for Hazlerigg Hall as well as other fittings throughout the college, and these were built by his students. The college

625-656: Was the nephew of the Nobel Prize -winning physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals . Trained as a cabinet maker in his native Netherlands , Waals spent three years working in Brussels , Berlin and Vienna before moving to London where he was introduced to Ernest Gimson in 1901. Gimson had set up a small workshop in Cirencester , Gloucestershire , and then at Daneway House at Sapperton , making furniture, turned chairs, and metalwork to his own designs. Waals

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