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St Martin’s Church Heritage Open Day [11 September]
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2010, 08:31:19 AM »
St Martin’s Church Heritage Open Day, St Martin's Church, Marple Bridge, 10.00am-5.00pm

St Martin's Church on Brabyns Brow, just below Marple Station, is a gem of the Arts and Crafts Movement.  Come and enjoy the magnificent architecture and embellishments of this very beautiful church.  Guides will be on hand to talk about the architecture and fittings which were designed by the masters of the period: William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne Jones and others.  The organ was built by ‘Father’ Henry Willis, the greatest of the Victorian organ builders.  It will be played this morning.

Special Activities for Children/Families at 12.30-1.45pm  There will be various activities for children, including trying on traditional vicars' clothes and a heritage treasure trail around the church with prizes.

Talks: 10.30am and repeated at 2pm.  A short talk about the Hudson family who arranged and paid for the building of the church and who lived at Brabyns Hall (just down the hill below the church).  After the talk we’ll go out into the churchyard to look at significant monuments, and up Brabyns Brow to see the exterior of the vicarage.  For those with energy to spare, we can walk into Brabyns Park to view the site of Brabyns Hall (demolished 1952).

www.stmartins-lowmarple.co.uk

*Heritage Open Days is a national yearly event organised by English Heritage to celebrate the wealth and variety of England’s architectural treasures by offering free access to properties all over the country which are not normally open to the public.

For further information visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk


Mark Whittaker
The Marple Website