Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts

The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts (1898–1966) was a company of modern artists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement, but which also embraced other major design motifs. Founded by Walter Gilbert, the guild worked in metal, wood, plaster, bronze, tapestry, glass and other mediums.^[1]

Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts

Founded	1898
Defunct	1908

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

Main gate of Buckingham Palace

Bromsgrove Guild maker's mark on the main gate of Buckingham Palace

The Guild received a Royal Warrant in 1908.^[2]

The Guild's most famous works on public display are the main gates of Buckingham Palace and the Canada Gate both part of Sir Aston Webb's memorial scheme to Queen Victoria.^[3]

Unlike many other Arts & Crafts companies that faded away after a few decades, for instance Morris & Co, the Bromsgrove Guild survived until after World War II.

Famous works

• Liver birds, Royal Liver Building, Liverpool
• Trim on the Lusitania
• Trim on the RMS Queen Mary
• The statue of Hygieia at Chequers
• Plasterwork at Averley, Glasgow.^[4]
• Plasterwork at the Central Station Hotel, Glasgow.
• Stained Glass at Stoneleigh, Glasgow.
• The gates and sculpture at the Phoenix Assurance Building, Glasgow.
• Trim on the Cunard War Memorial, Liverpool.
• English altar and rails St Paul's Church, Bedford.
• Various items at Holy Trinity Church, Southport.
• Chancel gates and reredos in Liverpool Cathedral
• Items at Church of the Holy Trinity and St Mary, Dodford, Worcestershire
• The main gates of Buckingham Palace
• Terpsichore on the facade of the Fortune Theatre
• The mosaic in the pedimented gable at 50 Anlaby Road, Hull
• Choir Stalls at All Saints Cathedral, Halifax

Notes

1. Worcestershire County Council Archived September 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
2. The Bromsgrove Society Archived May 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
3. Worcestershire County Council^{[permanent dead link‍]} accessed 2 February 2010.
4. "Bromsgrove Guild (fl. 1898-1966), sculptors and foundry, a biography". glasgowsculpture.com. Retrieved 4 March 2024.

Sources

• Wells, Griffith T. (May 1912). "Sculpture in the garden: Some interesting work by the Bromsgrove Guild, of Worcestershire, England". Arts & Decoration. 2 (7): 260–261. JSTOR 43799690.