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St Martin's Low Marple Heritage Trust Archive

This section of the web site is for older news, reports and articles we don't want to loose.

St Martin's Heritage Trust News

Archived articles and older news:

St Christopher: how I restored the statue at St Martin’s church

Saturday 17 May 2025, 2.30-4pm

Veronika Viková, conservator, describes her work and explains the scientific techniques that she recently applied to bring our St Christopher back to peak condition.

before and after

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St Christopher in Legend and Art (and in Marple)

Who was this saint?

Why is there a more than life-size sculpture of him in St Martin’s church?

A talk by Anthony Burton Saturday 8 March 2025, 2.30pm to 4pm, with tea at St. Martin’s Church Hall, Brabyns Brow, Marple.

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Rev. Ann Hyde retirement

Here are couple of photos of St. Martin's Heritage Trust retiring chair Rev. Ann Hyde and incoming chairman David Bush. They were celebrating her long contribution to the Trust since its inception 10 years ago. Everyone at the Trust wishes her well as she relocates and enjoys a happy retirement.

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The Northern Art Workers' Guild

Saturday 1 February 2025, 2.30 – 4.00 with tea.
Admission free, donations welcome.

In November 2019 three scholars, Richard Fletcher, Barry Clark and Stephanie Boydell, told us how they had started research into the Northern Art Workers’ Guild, which flourished in Manchester in the years when St Martin’s was created. Five years later, they have published a book, and return to tell us about their quest to rediscover the almost forgotten NAWG.

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Programme of events July to December 2024

St Martin's Low Marple Heritage Trust Programme July to December 2024

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  1. Religion in Marple and the industrial revolution, 1750-1900
  2. Henry Wilson brings internationalism to Marple
  3. Coach trip: to St John the Baptist, Tideswell
  4. Henry Wilson: An introduction
  5. Catch-Up!

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