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Download Artists' Walk 2 ARTISTS’ WALK After passing The Leaflet supported by Fieldway on your Ditchling History Project right you will see 2 Many thanks to the Ditchling History Project for providing the text for a red brick villa, these walks. DHP members are enthusiastic researchers and recorders ‘Meadowcroft’ which of Ditchling’s past; the group have published several books, organise was a Red Cross exhibitions, offer walks and talks, collect oral histories and maintain a hospital during the database relating to all aspects of the village’s history. The Village Centre First World War. ditchlinghistoryproject.org Sister Wells was living APPROXIMATELY 1 HOUR | 3/4 MILE 5 Lettering, Edward Johnston Can be added to walk 1 to take in the church and churchyard next door with her young son John Wells Turner Dumbrell Eric Gill’s nephew John Skelton who became one of the St The Turner-Dumbrell Foundation, established in 1983, is a grant (Trowbridge was Skelton’s Ives group of artists. Pass the making trust supporting charitable organisations in Ditchling and apprentice). Now continue Twitten and continue along the surrounding area. The Foundation owns and manages the Turner- along Lewes Road and on your Lewes Road to the crossroads. Dumbrell Workshops, let mainly to local artists and craft-workers, Frank Brangwyn left is the tile-hung house As you turn right into the and land at Lodge Hill and Bowries fields which are let for grazing. The Louis Ginnett ‘Downsview’ (5), home in High Street you’ll reach a tall rental income contributes towards the charitable giving. Edward Johnston 1913 to the calligrapher Edward timber-framed house often a turner-dumbrell.org Hilary Pepler John Skelton Johnston for a brief spell before subject for artists. This was the Jack Trowbridge moving up to ‘Halletts’ on home of the architect John John Wells Ditchling Common. He returned Denman who worked with Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft to the village with his family to Louis Ginnett, his neighbour In 1985, when they were 78 and 76 years old respectively, Joanna and live at the ‘Cleves’, (next door next door at Chichester House. Hilary Bourne bought the former school in the village of Ditchling but one) where you can see the Continue to Church Lane and and opened the first museum - Ditchling Museum. plaque by Jack Trowbridge, and make your way back to the When Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft was reopened in 2013 after a where he remained until his museum through the churchyard significant development, an exciting new phase began in its history. death in 1944 (6). and across the Green. Today the museum holds an internationally important collection of work by the artists and craftspeople who were drawn to the village, including the sculptor, wood engraver, type-designer and letter-cutter 6 Guild Workshop and Chapel, Edgar Holloway, 1971 Eric Gill, the calligrapher Edward Johnston, the painter David Jones, the printer Hilary Pepler and the weaver Ethel Mairet. The museum produces a changing and dynamic programme of traditional and contemporary exhibitions and workshops. ditchlingmuseumartcraft.org.uk Opening times Tuesday – Saturday: 10.30am - 5pm Sunday + Bank Holidays: 11 - 5pm © 2018. Copyright Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft. The village was the home to many artists, writers and makers in the early 20th century, a residential creative tradition which continues to the present day. 3 Engraving of Ditchling, Eric Gill, 1918 (commissioned by Ditchling Women’s Institute) N BRANGWYN’S ACRE route past the 18th century Old Continue, passing Farm Lane EAST END LANE HIGH STREET Meeting House where G.K. on your left, and when you OLD (B2112) MEETING Chesterton preached and at the near Lewes Road, just before a THE LIMES HOUSE TWITTEN CONDS FARM LANE end of the path turn right to turning to Barnfield Gardens is 2 SOPERS 1 3 the crossroads, OR for a longer Wild Goose Cottage once the CHURCH LANE THE SANDROCK 4 walk carry on down East End home of Rowland Emett (4), ST MARGARET’S PRIMARY SCHOOL Lane where you soon pass the the cartoonist and inventor SAINT MARGARET’S CHURCH development Brangwyn’s Acre of fantastic machines. WEST STREET LEWES ROAD (B2116) (B2116) on your left. At the entrance At the junction with Lewes 2 Stanhope Press, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is the group of Brangwyn’s Road turn right toward St CLEVES DOWNSVIEW To Hassocks Station SOUTH ST 6 5 Cottages built for villagers Margaret’s Primary School (B2112) From the museum take the path first floor window looks out to by the Ditchling artist Frank where, if you walk round to across the village green and up the Downs familiar to Gill as a Brangwyn with the monogram the entrance, you will see a the steps to the church yard, child growing up in Brighton. F & L B for himself and his sculpture of St Margaret by Jack turning left to the tree-lined He wrote: “If you have been a wife Lucy. Trowbridge with a plaque by Church Lane and then right little child brought up in these to the High Street. Cross the hills and in those days you 4 Roland Emmett road to the brick fronted house will understand their mortal 1 Sopers ‘Sopers’ with a plaque showing loveliness (3)“. that Eric Gill lived here from Pass the timber-framed 1907-1913. The plaque is by Jack ‘Conds Cottage’, at one time Trowbridge, who was apprenticed the home of the printer Gerard to John Skelton, himself a pupil Meynell and his wife the Sussex of Gill and Joseph Cribb. After writer Esther Meynell, and The Gill moved up to Ditchling Limes which was the childhood Common, his friend from home of the Sinden family of Hammersmith, Hilary Pepler, actors, then turn right down lived at ‘Sopers’ (1) and in 1916 East End Lane. This is the installed the Stanhope Press (2) original east-west road out of in the outbuildings. His first Ditchling before the arrival of commercial job was to print the turnpike. When you reach beer labels for the Sandrock The Twitten on your right you Inn next door. The south facing can either take this shorter .
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