 Ibberson had worked in the same office as Gimson, Ernest Barnsley and Alfred Hoare Powell under J. D. Sedding, in the ‘crafted Gothic’ tradition, with a love of handicraft.Like William Morris, Philip Webb and Norman Shaw, Sedding had been a pupil of George Edmund Street.Jewson describes, in his autobiographical reminiscences, "By Chance I did Rove" (1951), how, having finished his apprenticeship in 1907, he set out with a donkey and trap on a sketching tour in the Cotswolds, ‘a part of the country little known at that time’.