St Martin's Low Marple Heritage Trust
St Martin’s Low Marple Heritage Trust exists to preserve and make known the artistic heritage of St Martin’s church, a Church of England church in Marple, which lies within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in the Greater Manchester area.
St Martin’s is a parish church in the liberal Catholic tradition of the Church of England. It was founded in 1870 by a local family who, influenced by the Oxford Movement and the ritual revival in the Church of England, wished to establish a church where Anglo-Catholic ceremonial would be observed. To create a worthy setting for this, the church employed prominent architects and designers over a period of fifty years. The church now stands as a treasury of work by artists in the English Arts and Crafts Movement. It is a Grade II* Listed Building, and thus of national significance. The Trust hopes to gain wider recognition of the artistic worth of the church, and to make it more accessible to the local community.
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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.
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Wayside Flora: Art Workshop
Saturday 14 June 2025, 2-4pm
Artist Mair Doyle (based in Mill Brow) leads participants in sketching the flowers that bloom in St Martin’s churchyard.
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Cleaning of the St Christopher Relief
Restoration of a sculpture at St Martin’s church
While the winter storms were raging outside, a sculpture conservationist was at work in St Martin’s, cleaning and restoring a relief sculpture of St Christopher in plaster. This is the latest project completed in 2025 by the St Martin’s Heritage Trust.
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