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The former Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman famously referred to Holy Trinity Church as the ‘Cathedral of the Arts & Crafts Movement’, containing as it does treasures by leading figures of the Movement.
The Arts & Crafts Movement was formed in the late 19th century to combat the inhumanity resulting from Victorian industrialisation. Machines dominated manual skills and imposed harsh working conditions on men, women and children. There was pervading ugliness and little respect for beauty and nature.
The Arts & Crafts Movement stood for the restoration of the prestige of craftsmen, the appreciation of nature, improving the education of the poor, and ‘sweetness and light’ in architecture. The founding members were artists, poets, craftsmen, writers and architects - GE Street, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, John Ruskin, JD Sedding and others who were passionate in their belief and compassionate to those degraded by machines. |
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Arts & Crafts |
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The Spirit of Holy Trinity & The Spirit of The Arts & Crafts Movement |
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If you are interested in Arts & Crafts at Holy Trinity, please e-mail us at: |
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£30 membership for exhibiting artists £10 to join as a Friend to the Guild |