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
Margaret Agnes Rope was a British stained glass artist in the Arts and Crafts movement tradition active in the first four decades of the 20th century. Her work is notable for the intensity and skill of the painting and the religious fervour underpinning it. She should not be confused with her cousin, Margaret Edith Rope, another British stained glass artist in the same tradition, active from 1910 until the mid-1960s, with whom she cooperated on some windows.
Detail from the Prodigal Son window, St Mary's, Lanark: six episodes from the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Here he "fain would fill his belly with the husks that the swine did eat"
English Martyrs window at Holy Name, Oxton, Birkenhead
SS Elizabeth, Mary & John the Baptist at Holy Name, Oxton, Birkenhead
Memorial window to her sister's two children, Our Lady's, Llandovery, Dyfed, Wales