The Millennium Embroidery with Steve Lamont, who built the frame,
Steve Lamont lived in East Meon for thirteen years and was commissioned in 2008 to design and construct a frame for the Embroidery and a Vestry cupboard behind it.
White boards, cut to size ready to be planed up
Veneered boards, machined and ready for planning
Trial fit of front dovetails
Trial fit in the vestry unit.
One of the drawers complete with oak front
And all the drawers flush to the cabinet.
Lock escutcheon in walnut, key hand-made by locksmith
Drawer-locking snakehead mechanism
Toy wheels, hidden, to reduce friction of drawer locking mechanism
Knobs and worktop installed
The display unit is erected in front of the vestry unit in Steve's workshop.
The vestry unit, complete and ready to be disassembled
The Millennium Embroidery is mounted in its frame and fibre optic lighting installed. September 2008.
Steve Lamont had been a fighter pilot in the USAF, then learned woodwork in the Barnsley Workshop in Froxfield. He lived in the 2000s in the cottage at East Meon’s Court House and set up his own workshop in Ropley. In 2008 he was commissioned to build a frame for the Millennium Tapestry which would also incorporate hanging and storage space for the vicar’s vestry.
Most of the photographs were taken by Chris Warren – please acknowledge if used.
Creator
Steve Lamont & Chris Warren Place
Ropley and East Meon Contributor
Steve Lamont Copyright
Chris Warren Reference number
EM/0009/0011/0006 Accession number
2013-11-045 Storage location
The frame stands in the north transept of All Saints Church. A DVD of the photographs by Chris Warren in in the Library C/5 Format
Digital photographs
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