THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND’S CHURCHES

Arts and Crafts designers built and decorated hundreds of churches across England between1890 and 1930. Brockhampton in Herefordshire, Holy Trinity in Sloane Square, St Andrew’s in Roker are particularly rich in features like stained glass, screens, font covers, as are the buildings themselves. Such designers, William Morris and others, completely changed the course of church furnishing in England followed by a new generation of Arts and Crafts designers who revolutionised church design. The lecture’s particular focus is Brockhampton, arguably the finest Arts and Crafts church in Britain.

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THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Ms Kirsty Hartsiotis

Kirsty Hartsiotis has been the curator of the decorative and fine art at The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham since 2008, and prior to that was the curator and manager of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery. At Cheltenham she looks after the Designated Arts and Crafts Movement collection, which includes the important private press archive, the Emery Walker Library. She’s curated many exhibitions on the Arts and Crafts and Private Press Movements, most recently Ernest Gimson: Observation, Imagination & Making.

Passionate about sharing her deep love for and knowledge of the arts, she’s also a freelance researcher, currently researching Arts and Crafts war memorials and the work of Arts and Crafts designers in churches in the South West. She’s also been an oral storyteller for over 20 years, and has published a number of collections of stories. She’s the newsletter editor for Society of Decorative Art Collections, a regular columnist for Cotswold Life, and writes for diverse other publications on art history and folklore.