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Railway Brake Van ready for repair – Railway Brake Van repaired  

Dylan completing the English Elm Coffin for the Hiermonk Siluoan. Many years!

The icon presented to Pope Francis, board and gesso by Dylan and painted by Aidan.

Paul Gynnild Hartley My Dad, Dylan, along with Aidan (cream suited chap) made/painted an icon of St. Peter and St. Paul which was given as a gift by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the new Pope of Rome. Tom spent a long time seeking permission to allow us to view the icon in the Vatican, Read More…

Good News!  All icon board prices shown on our website and any specials  are being reduced by 25% with immediate effect!

dylanhartleycom: Made in european oak with solid brass inserts.  Part of other items being made and all designed by Aidan Hart.

Made of european oak with cedar of lebannon shelves.

Commissioned by Aidan Hart and made in european oak.  The white gessoed doors will be painted with gold leaf and egg tempera showing a scene of the annunciation.

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Large Olive Ash sideboard finished and installed for Allen and Thelma Smith.

The Edicule for Wonersh Chapel has been made in oak and will be the home for an icon.  Designed by Aidan Hart.

Dylan was very pleased to welcome Robert to his workshop in the Ironbridge Gorge.  When studying at Shoreditch College in the 1970s Ernest Joyce – ‘The technique of furniture making’ was on of the text books. The fourth edition revised by Allan Peters has a number of examples of Robert’s work , particularly his famous Read More…

We are very pleased to have won the following commissions which will keep us busy well into the New Year : Edicule for St John’s Seminary, Wonersh. A place of formation for the priesthood in the Catholic church serving dioceses in the South of England and Wales. Tabernacle for the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle (also known Read More…

Large ash sideboard for Alan and Thelma Smith in the construction stage, with Dylan, John and Craig.

Audio and TV Cabinet made to commission by Emma and Tom Hardwidge, Jackfield

The  delivery and placing  of the newly made Alter, Lectern, Font, Chair and Prayer Table from 100 year old old oak pews with Father Michael, Dylan Hartley, John Treherne and two very appreciated helpers.

sawn Oak triptych commissioned by iconographer Dr Derek Bird, London. Made using quarter sawn English oak with no rear braces meant the panels were stable even when wet gesso was applied. £185 plus postage and packing.

Finished Tabernacle make out of the old pews.

The 100 year old oak pews being recycled to make a font for St Mary’s church in Madeley.

The Bath analoys with mounted icons made in english sycamore.

Commissioned by iconographer Dr Derek Bird, made in 100 year old quarter sawn oak, brass hinges and gessoed.  £185

Commissioned by iconographer Dr Derek Bird, made in 100 year old quarter sawn oak, brass hinges and gessoed.  £185

 Alex glueing up a replica servants quarter door for a listed period house in Ironbridge. He also made a new section of stair case, handrail, newels, bottom rail and spindles to match the original for Tim Holloway of TGH building services Telford. Well done Alex 2 years apprentiship complete 5 to go!

Dylan, Mark and Anna with the Sycamore meeting table, also desk and side tables all delivered on time for Anna the Chief Executive of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust to move into her new office. Anna supports many of her tennants (incl dylanhartley ltd) by placing as much work as possible in the Gorge – Read More…

Oak windows for Mark Yapp of Castlemoor Farm near Much Wenlock. Working with John Trehearne on glueing up 37 sash casements

Well after a long heart to heart with my friend Aidan I have decided to continue gessoeing. He feels my gesso boards are indeed of high quality and that the workshop was too hot and dry. As I was gesssoeing 2 sq m of boards they were getting too dry before getting re-coated. I am Read More…

Our church joinery and cabinet work has increased since Dylan set up the workshop in Jackfield. We now have four employees who are, thankfully, kept busy.Gessoing requires a dust free and quiet space for 12 hours whilst 15 coats of gesso are applied.  We no longer have this space available. We will only be offering Read More…

Roger, Alex (our apprentice) and David with their chairs at the end of a hard weeks chair making with Peter Hindle of Ashem Crafts

Dylan with Aidan and the carving of the Angel with Mary M as Christ appears in the garden mistaken as the gardener.

Alex our indentured apprentice is back working with Dylan on the Madrid screen commissioned by Aidan Hart & Co

This icon board was hand carved and gesso’d by Dylan Hartley; each one takes weeks to complete before being painted by world renowned iconographic, Aidan Hart. We’re very proud to announce that this one, of St Peter and St Paul, has just been purchased by the Church of England for the new Archbishop of Canterbury Read More…

Dylan with his first woodwork class student George Morris at 84 still enjoying woodwork and re-glueing with traditional scotch glue their 150 year old family dining chairs.

Glueing up the Madrid screen with Roger

Dylan and Roger glue up the Madrid arch

The Madrid screen arch takes shape. Dylan working with Roger Garbett

Inside the teaching workshop – The woodwork classroom

Entrance to the Fusion teaching workshop of dylanhartley – Artisans in the Gorge

Icon board stock back up to 100 boards and ply panels Shop now trading

Icon board stock back up to 100 boards and ply panels Shop now trading  

Work completed on the roughing out of the carving for the Russian Orthodox Church in Madrid for Aidan Hart & Co. Completed by Hartley and Son Ltd 

With my son Tom, MD of Hartley and Son Ltd, at the end of a hard day window building at the Stampwell Farm Barn. latimerminster.org

5m long using English oak air dried from the Dorney estate

Work completed on the Dorney Court gable board

Working the icon screen arched head for Aidan Hart & Co

Close up of Father Michael’s icon screen. Design by Aidan Hart.

Father Micheal’s icon screen completed and installed. Made in European oak using medieval scratch mouldings and pegs. The screen can be dismantled and moved. Designed by Aidan Hart. Icons painted by Aidan Hart

A completed Shaker Settle by Dylan Hartley, expertly upholstered by Christine

Can’t take all the credit, Christine did a smashing upholstery job.

Completed my Shaker settle today, off down to the craft centre in nearby Ironbridge in the morning.

Dylan has been commissioned by Aidan Hart to build the 2.5m high oak screen for the Russian Church in Madrid, Spain. We look forward top starting work on this project later in the summer of 2012.

Solid oak bookcase, oak veneered ply back. 980mm high, 600mm wide and 225mm deep. book space heights 300mm, 250mm and 235mm. Other sizes to order and adjustable library shelf strips available. This size £168. Delivery extra.

At the end of May we are heading to the XIVth Western European Orthodox Congress in Strasbourg, France. We will exhibit our high quality Icon boards in various stages of crafting. We will exhibit works and photographs by Aidan Hart. Aidan Hart & Co are Church furnishers and a new venture by Aidan and Dylan.

A close up of the thrones.

Had a meeting with Manuel of Dawley Web Design, Telford. Manuel is about to do some major work on our website, check him out, great rates ,

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