Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts

Neptune Fountain by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts, 1911.

Main gate of Buckingham Palace with the royal coat of arms.

The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts ( The Bromsgrove Guild of Craftsman ) was a society of modern artists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement . The "Guild" was founded by Walter Gilbert and existed from 1898 to 1966. It is named after the town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire . The members made works in metal, wood, plaster, bronze, carpets, glass and other materials.

In 1908 the guild received a Royal Warrant (appointment as purveyor to the court ).

The most famous work is the main gates of Buckingham Palace and Canada Gate . Both works are part of the Sir Aston Webbs Memorial Scheme for Queen Victoria .

Unlike contemporary short-lived societies like the William Morris Company or HH Martin , the Bromsgrove Guild existed for more than six decades.

Works

• Liver birds at the Royal Liver Building , Liverpool
• Equipment of the RMS Lusitania
• Equipment of the RMS Queen Mary
• The statue of Hygieia in Checkers
• Plastering work in Averley , Glasgow .
• Plastering work on the Central Station Hotel, Glasgow .
• Stained glass window in Stoneleigh, Glasgow .
• Gates and sculptures on the Phoenix Assurance Building, Glasgow .
• Interior of the Cunard War Memorial , Liverpool.
• English altar and barriers in St Paul's Church, Bedford .
• Various items in Holy Trinity Church, Southport .
• Pulpit doors and altarpieces in Liverpool Cathedral
• Items from in the Church of the Holy Trinity and St Mary , Dodford, Worcestershire
• The main gates of Buckingham Palace
• Terpsichore on the facade of the Fortune Theater , City of Westminster
• Mosaic in the pediment of 50 Anlaby Road, Hull
• Choir stalls in All Saints Cathedral, Halifax , Canada
• Plastering at The Royal Naval College , Dartmouth
• Bronze doors of the Julius Beer Mausoleum , West Cemetery Highgate
  • Bronze work: [Angel and artist], bronze plaque, Mary, the infant Jesus, and John the Baptist , Lancaster Town Hall medal , Bromesgrove Guild medal , St. Hubert , Joan of Arc

Personalities

• Walter Gilbert
• Joseph Hodel
• Louis Weingartner bl. 1904
• William McCandlish
• Leopold Weisz , victim of the Titanic
• Michael Hewan Crichton
• Ernest Cowper

Individual evidence

1. ^ Worcestershire County Council .
2. ^ The Bromsgrove Society .
3. ^ Worcestershire County Council .
4. ↑ www.glasgowsculpture.com

swell

• Griffith T. Wells: Sculpture in the garden: Some interesting work by the Bromsgrove Guild, of Worcestershire, England. In: Arts & Decoration. May 1912, vol. 2, 7: pp. 260-261. jstor = 43799690

literature

• Q. Watt: The Bromsgrove Guild. Bromsgrove: The Bromsgrove Society 1999.
• "The Bromsgrove Guild: The history of a great Arts and Crafts movement." Worcestershire Life. (March 2010).
• Barbara J. Morrison: Saga of the Guild of Decorative Art. 1969.

Web links

Commons : The Bromsgrove Guild  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bromsgrove Guild at Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland sculpture.gla.ac.uk.
• The Liver Birds researchworcestershire.wordpress.com.
• [www.victorianweb.org/art/institutions/bromsgrove.html The Bromsgrove Guild of Craftsman] victorianweb.org
• Artist Biographies British and Irish Artists of the 20th Century. artbiogs.co.uk
• Architectural Heritage. architectural-heritage.co.uk
• Work begins to list the records of the Bromsgrove Guild. xplorethepast.co.uk
• Bromsgrove Guild Lead Satyr mask. A History of the World BBC bbc.co.uk.