Alfred Bucknell (1878–1955) was a Cotswolds blacksmith and metalworker closely associated with Ernest Gimson and the Sapperton circle. From around 1903 he executed firedogs, fire-irons, candlesticks, sconces, lamps and other fittings in wrought and polished steel, brass and iron to designs by Gimson and later Peter Waals, helping to define the metalwork vocabulary of the Cotswold Arts and Crafts tradition.
After Gimson’s death in 1919 Bucknell established his own smithy at Waterlane, near Sapperton, continuing to produce finely punched and chased metalwork. He was later joined by his son Norman Bucknell, who carried the workshop practice into the mid twentieth century, and their work is recorded on furniture and architectural commissions in the Stroud valleys and beyond.
