Celestino Enrico Pancheri (ca. 1881 – 21 November 1961) was an Italian sculptor and carver who worked in

Bromsgrove Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England, about northeast of Worcester and southwest of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 (39,644 in the wider Bromsgrove/Catshill urban area). Bromsgrove is the main town in the ...

, Worcestershire. He was born in Italy but came to England to work for the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts at the end of the 19th century. He settled in Bromsgrove and in partnership with Mr Hack, managed to buy the Old Coach House, setting up their own business ''Pancheri and Hack'', around 1920. Celestino Pancheri married Florence Gibbs in 1911. Their son, Robert followed his father into the trade, and the business was called ''Pancheri and Son''.

Robert Pancheri

Robert Pancheri (22 June 1916 – 1996) was educated at Bromsgrove School, saw service as a Captain in the Cheshire Regiment in the Second World War and was a lay preacher. On his father's death, he inherited the business.

Works

*St Godwald's Church, Finstall. Reredos 1924. * Bromsgrove School Memorial Chapel. Reredos. 1930 *Holy Trinity and St Mary's Church, Dodford. Woodcarving incl. Organ Case 1936 *

St Mary and All Saints' Church, Kidderminster St Mary and All Saints’ Church, Kidderminster is a Grade I listed Major Parish Church in the Church of England in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. History The foundation existed at the time of the Domesday book. Records of a consecra ...

. Oak Screen 1946The Buildings of England. Worcestershire. Nikolaus Pevsner and Alan Brooks. Yale University Press. 2007 *St Denys’ Church, Severn Stoke. War Memorial Screen 1946 *St Godwald's Church, Finstall Memorial to the Normandy landings 1946 *

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Royal Arms of Queen Elizabeth II 1954 *St James' Church, Blakedown. Lectern 1954 *St John the Baptist's Church, Suckley. Sanctuary fittings. 1956 *

St John the Baptist's Church, Longbridge St John the Baptist's Church, Longbridge is a parish church in the Church of England in Birmingham. History The church was designed by G H While of Bromilow, While and Smeaton. The church was consecrated in 1957 and a parish was formed from ...

. Carved statues in the west window. 1957 *St Saviour's Church, West Hagley. Angel Lectern 1959 *St Mary's Church, Elmbridge. Chancel alterations. 1960 - 1961 *St Stephen's Church, Worcester. West screen. 1961 *St Bartholomew's Church, Tardebigge. Pulpit. 1965 *St John the Baptist's Church, Wolverley. Lectern 1965 *St Peter's Church, Inkberrow. Vestry Screen. 1970 *St John the Baptist's Church, Feckenham. Reredos 1971 * St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove. Organ Screen 1969 - 1970 * St John the Baptist Church, Bromsgrove. Statue of St John the Baptist. 1973

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pancheri, Celestino 1881 births 1961 deaths British architectural sculptors 20th-century Italian sculptors 20th-century Italian male artists Italian male sculptors Modern sculptors