Gallery

Edmund Pinwill with his daughters and grandchildren c. 1907 [Ermington Days by kind permission of the family]

Violet Pinwill, aged about 17, when she became a professional woodcarver, along with her sisters Mary and Ethel [Clare Pawley collection]

Early C16 chancel screen at Buckland in the Moor, Devon, restored by Ethel Pinwill in 1907 [Helen Wilson]

Pulpit at Ermington, Devon, one of the first known pieces of ecclesiastical carving carried out by the Pinwill sisters in 1889 [Helen Wilson]

Detail from the pulpit at Ermington, Devon, showing the figure of Aaron [Helen Wilson]

The Pinwill sisters carved numerous items for their father’s church at Ermington, Devon, including this lectern of unknown date [Helen Wilson]

Screen at Lydford, Devon, carved by Ethel and Violet Pinwill in 1904 [Helen Wilson]

Detail of the chancel screen at Lydford, Devon [Helen Wilson]

Priest’s stall at St Ives, Cornwall, carved by Violet Pinwill in 1913 [PWDRO 244-4 with kind permission of the Pinwill family]

St Martin-by-Looe, Cornwall, refurbished by Violet Pinwill between 1921 and 1956 [Helen Wilson]

Bench end at Sheepstor, Devon, showing King John signing Magna Carta, designed and produced by Violet Pinwill [Helen Wilson]

Pulpit at Stoke Fleming, Devon, carved by the Pinwill sisters in 1891 [Helen Wilson]

Screen at Stratton, Cornwall, carved by the Pinwill company in 1901 [Helen Wilson]

St Wenn, one of 32 figures of saints and kings carved by Violet Pinwill between 1912 and 1944 for Truro Cathedral choir stalls [Helen Wilson]

Choir stalls at Yelverton, Devon, carved by Violet Pinwill 1915 [Helen Wilson]

Choir stall poppy head at Lanteglos by Fowey, Cornwall, from 1906 [Helen Wilson]