Details of Sculptor

Surname

Wood

Alternative Surname

First Name

Thomas, of Bingham

Initial of Surname

W

Year of Birth/Baptism

1760

Flourished

Year of Death

1841

Biographical Details

He appears to have been chiefly a maker of slate headstones for Nottinghamshire churchyards. Pevsner refers to three, one at Cropwell Bishop, another at Granby carved with an urn and pastoral scenes, and a third at Screveton with masonic emblems. Neave and Heron describe a slate at Caythorpe, 1815, depicting at the top, two fine pheasants, and another at Foston, 1812, with ‘one of his typical rustic scenes’, which has a lady weeping against a large urn, a sheep, trees and houses and a grassy hill behind. Gunnis mentions others at Bingham (1794), Whatton (1815) and Lowdham (1785, 1799, 1820, 1826). The White has ‘a delightful engraving of the Day of Resurrection, showing a church, houses, while from a tomb in the churchyard emerges a figure with a crown in its hand’(1).The Timm is a classical altar-tomb (4).
Wood was buried at Bingham, where his epitaph describes him as ‘well-known for more than half a century as an ingenious carver of tombs and gravestones’.
Literary References: Gunnis 1968 440; Neave and Heron 1969, 5-6; Pevsner, Notts, 1979, 109, 134, 304