Catalogue description Frank Tory and Sons, architectural sculptors, Sheffield

Cash book, including costings and sketches, 1904 - 1963 (MD7773/1/1)

Sketch books and note books, 1898 - early 20th cent (MD7773/2/1-4)

Photographs, [late 19th cent - early 20th cent] (MD7773/3/1-4)

Glass negatives, [late 19th cent - early 20th cent] (MD7773/4/1-5)

Frank Tory and Sons

These records were deposited with Sheffield City Archives in 1988 by a descendant of the Tory family.

• Industry
• Sculpture
• Stone Carving
• Decorative Arts
• Building Design
• Carving
• Architecture
• Stonemasonry
• Art
• Decorative Features
• Tory; William Frank (1881 - 1968)
• Tory; Alfred Herbert (1881 - 1971)
• Tory; Frank (1848 - 1939)
• Sheffield; Frank Tory and Sons; [fl. 1880-1960]

The Tory family were talented sculptors and architectural carvers whose work can be seen on a number of Sheffield's late 19th cent and early 20th cent buildings. Frank Tory (1848 - 1939) trained at Lambeth School of Art, London and came to Sheffield in 1880 to undertake the decorative stone carving on the now demolished Corn Exchange. His twin sons, Alfred Herbert (1881 - 1971) and William Frank (1881 - 1968), trained under their father, who also taught at the Sheffield School of Art. The Tory family worked in stone, wood, marble and bronze, and they designed and executed a wide range of architectural decoration, church furnishings and memorials. Examples of Frank Tory's work can be seen at St John's Church, Ranmoor and on Parade Chambers, High Street, Sheffield. His sons' work includes sculptural decoration on Sheffield City Hall and the Central Library, Surrey Street as well as Leeds' Civic Building and Chesterfield Town Hall. The ten figures of Sheffield tradesmen on the White Building, Fitzalan Square are also by Alfred and William Tory.