Jones & Willis Ltd (established about 1847)
Birmingham firm who manufactured church furnishings. Newton, Jones & Willis won medals for embroidery at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and later international exhibitions.
Jones & Willis became well established as one of the biggest church furnishing firms in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, opening premises in Liverpool and in London. They supplied stained glass from the 1880s, and came to reflect 'the self assertive commercialism of the end of the century' (Birkin Haward, 1989). Some of their work in the 1920s and 30s was designed by the architect F.E. Howard, a pupil of Ninian Comper.
Pattern books and catalogues from about 1847 to 1931 are held at the Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service.
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