St Martin's Low Marple Heritage Trust
St Martin’s Low Marple Heritage Trust exists to preserve and make known the artistic heritage of St Martin’s church, a Church of England church in Marple, which lies within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in the Greater Manchester area.
St Martin’s is a parish church in the liberal Catholic tradition of the Church of England. It was founded in 1870 by a local family who, influenced by the Oxford Movement and the ritual revival in the Church of England, wished to establish a church where Anglo-Catholic ceremonial would be observed. To create a worthy setting for this, the church employed prominent architects and designers over a period of fifty years. The church now stands as a treasury of work by artists in the English Arts and Crafts Movement. It is a Grade II* Listed Building, and thus of national significance. The Trust hopes to gain wider recognition of the artistic worth of the church, and to make it more accessible to the local community.
William Morris Stained Glass
Friday 20 May 2022
Illustrated lecture in church at 7.30 pm
Anthony Burton explains why stained glass made by William Morris’s firm came to be regarded as the best in Victorian stained glass. He surveys the wide range of the firm’s work, and shows where our St Martin’s windows fit in.
The Tears Wept by our Windows
Friday 24 June 2022
Illustrated lecture in church at 7.30 pm
Alison Gilchrist, conservation specialist since 2011 at Barley Studio, York (one of Britain’s leaders in ‘design and mastery in stained glass’), describes her work restoring Victorian stained glass.
Programme of Events 2022
The programme of events up to autumn 2022 is now in place.
Open to Visitors
From 7 May 2022, and through the summer season, the church will normally be open to visitors from 10.30 to 12.30 on Saturday mornings. A member of the Trust will be on hand to provide guidance and information about the building and its works of art. If the church should be in use at these times for a service, we apologise to visitors. It is expected that these Saturday openings will be suspended over winter 2022-23.
Church Life
Details of services and activities at the church can be found on the church’s own website: www.stmartins-lowmarple.co.uk
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