Context (Field collection)
The catalogue card has the following entry: "From the Vessey House (now partially demolished)"
Found: Corner of Petty Cury and Market Hill
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A carved chimney piece
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (References)
Middleton, J. H. and Atkinson, T. Dinham. (1891). 'On the house of the Veysy Family in Cambridge'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol 7(2), pp. 93-103, Pl. XV
Event Date 1891
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Annual Report: 'A carved chimney-piece, in clunch.'
Event Date 1893
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
This may be the same mantlepiece or part of the same mantlepiece listed and illustrated in the 1913 Annual Report (AR 1913.353), which is described as a '16th century mantlepiece, finely carved in clunch (height 7', breadth 10'), removed from the house of the Veysy family which stood at the corner of Petty Cury and Market Street, Cambridge. Erected 1538, demolished 1889' and gives the same PCAS article. That mantlepiece is listed as being donated by the 'Mayor and Town Council of Cambridge', however.
Event Date 22/3/2023
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)