Details of Sculptor

Surname

Bayes

Alternative Surname

First Name

William, of Great Yarmouth

Initial of Surname

B

Year of Birth/Baptism

c1782

Flourished

Year of Death

1824

Biographical Details

Bayes was apprenticed to Henry Croskill on 29 December 1796 and he was admitted as a freeman on 4 November 1806. He repaired the tower of the church of St Nicholas, Great Yarmouth in 1807. He took Thomas Seaman apprentice in 1809, George Lingwood in 1811, George Seaman in 1812, Thomas Burgess in 1817, and William Burgess Bayes in 1819.

The Norfolk Chronicle of 14 April 1810 carried an advertisement for Bayes ‘Marble & Stone-Mason, North Quay, Great Yarmouth’, which stated that he had ‘for sale, a variety of Marble, and Stone Chimney Pieces .... Monuments, Tombs, and Grave-stones executed in the neatest manner’. In the same paper, 17 June 1815, he advertised ‘Foreign Marble Chimney Pieces’, ‘Portland Stone ditto’ and ‘Dutch Black Marble for Tombs’, and in the Ipswich Journal, 20 July 1816, ‘Marble Chimney Pieces, &c in great variety of exquisite workmanship.’

The Norfolk Chronicle for 12 June 1824 recorded his death at the age of 42.

Archival References: RG/JP, 1, 115v; inf Jon Bayliss