Part of the roof of the North Transept of Sheffield Cathedral with the name of Joseph Clay, Church Collector 1741 cast into it.
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Title:Part of the roof of the North Transept of Sheffield Cathedral with the name of Joseph Clay, Church Collector 1741 cast into it.
Location:Sheffield_City_Centre
Date Period:Please select
Photographer:C.H. Lea
Copyright::C.H. Lea
Notes:

See article in Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, Vol. 4, pp 331 - 346 entitled 'Local Plumbers and Glaziers' by J R Wigfull.

Joseph Clay of Bridgehouses was one of the Church Burgesses from 1739 and served as Collector in 1741. He died in 1797. Several of the Cathedral roofing sheets have names cast into them.

Information from J Hunter.

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