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.
Archived articles and older news:
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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St Martin's Low Marple Heritage Trust Programme July to December 2024
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Saturday 22 June 2024
Joint meeting with the Marple Local History Society. Several speakers explore how, as Marple grew, a number of churches were established (including St Martin’s) to serve the varied needs of Marple folk. In the Church Hall with tea, 2.30pm - 4pm.
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Read more: Religion in Marple and the industrial revolution, 1750-1900
Saturday 25 May 2024
While Sedding was passionate about English traditional architecture, Wilson was tuned in to the latest developments on the international art and architecture scene, as explained by Anthony Burton. In the Church Hall with tea, 2.30pm -4pm.
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Monday 6 May 2024
Another of our Bank Holiday excursions by mini-bus. Tideswell church, ‘the cathedral of the Peak’, is full of interest. We shall concentrate on the chancel, which was restored by architect J. D. Sedding soon after he had worked on St Martin’s. Cost and timings available in due course.
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