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Surname	Alcott	Alternative Surname
First Name	of Coventry	Initial of Surname	A
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1803-54?
Year of Death
Biographical Details	The death of the wife of a ‘Mr Alcott, mason of Coventry,’ was reported in the Monthly Magazine in 1803 (2, 387). He is probably the mason who was employed 1796-1802 on the rebuilding of Arbury, Warks, where he carved a great number of gothic ornaments reminiscent of those at Strawberry Hill (7). In October 1809 a ‘John Alcott of Coventry’ entered into an agreement to take down and rebuild the four pinnacles of the steeple of Holy Trinity, Coventry, together with other masonry work, at a cost of £108 10s. A John Alcott, presumably from another generation of the same family, had yards at Coventry and Rugby, and signs a number of tablets from the 1830s to the 1850s. These are mostly Gothic in design. Literary References: Poole 1870, 202; Gunnis 1968, 15