For the chancel roof beams at All Saints’ church, Middleton Cheney, Northants., where Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. were employed by the office of Sir G.G. Scott to decorate the roof and make stained glass for the east (and other) windows 1864-65. This design is annotated with instructions by William Morris for the painter. The roof decoration in the chancel and nave was executed from Morris’s designs by a ‘Mr Cottam of Banbury’, probably George Cottam who was a painter, decorator and gilder working from 28 High Street, Banbury between 1835 and 1869. See also related A27.
