Ellen Mary Rope (1855–1934) was a British sculptor whose career stretched from 1885 until the early 1930s. Her work is notable for its range of expression and style, from the classical to the popular. She worked chiefly in bas-reliefs, in stone, cast metal or plaster.
Pencil portrait of the sculptor in her old age, by Rosamond Praeger
"David playing before Saul", 1885, terracotta panel
Marble bas-relief probably of the Virgin Mary
Plaster panel in her local parish church, St Peter's, Blaxhall, Suffolk
Margaret Edith Rope, known as M. E. Aldrich Rope was an English stained-glass artist in the Arts and Crafts movement tradition active between 1910 and 1964. She was a cousin of Margaret Agnes Rope of Shrewsbury, another English stained-glass artist in the same tradition active from 1910 until the Second World War. By comparison, she was the more prolific as an artist, with an approach that evolved in her later years from a recognisable Arts and Crafts school style into something simpler and more modern.
M. E. Aldrich Rope
Creation window, S.Chad,Far Headingley,Leeds, 1923
Detail from the Creation window, S.Chad,Far Headingley,Leeds, 1923
Detail from the Creation window, S.Chad,Far Headingley,Leeds, 1923