Crispin Rope – RIP — Celebrating Margaret Rope – stained glass-artist

When Crispin Rope, the philanthropist and intellectual, died earlier this year, we lost the last person to know Sister Margaret Rope closely. Marga was Crispin’s aunt. The family story goes that baby Crispin was taken to the Woodbridge Carmel (now at Quidenham) where Margaret was an ‘enclosed’ nun, and shown to her through the visitors’ grille […]

Crispin Rope – RIP — Celebrating Margaret Rope – stained glass-artist