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Surname	Winbury	Alternative Surname
First Name		Initial of Surname	W
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1690-1710
Year of Death
Biographical Details	He re-cut Stephen Baldwyn’s statue of Charles I or Charles II in Worcester. In 1690 there is an order that Mr Alderman Haines ‘doe agree with Winbury the stonecutter for the takinge downe of the King's picture and settinge it up againe’, while in the audit of accounts for that year there is a payment of £5 to Winbury for ‘work done to and settinge up the King’s picture’. In 1710 he received a further payment for putting a new hand on the statue (Worcester City Accounts). Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 437; Gibson 1997 (1), 165, 370