The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts (1898–1966) was a company of

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ists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement, founded by

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. The guild worked in metal, wood, plaster, bronze, tapestry, glass and other mediums. The Guild received a Royal Warrant in 1908. The Guild's most famous works on public display are the main gates of

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and the Canada Gate both part of Sir

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's memorial scheme to

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. Unlike many other Arts & Crafts companies that faded away after a few decades, for instance the

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company, the

Bromsgrove Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England, about northeast of Worcester and southwest of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 (39,644 in the wider Bromsgrove/Catshill urban area). Bromsgrove is the main town in the ...

Guild survived until the early 1960s.

Famous works

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, Liverpool * Trim on the * Trim on the * The statue of

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* Plasterwork at Averley, Glasgow.www.glasgowsculpture.com
/ref> * 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

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. * Various items at

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. * Chancel gates and

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* Items at Church of the Holy Trinity and St Mary, Dodford, Worcestershire * The main gates of

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on the facade of the

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* The

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in the

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at 50 Anlaby Road, Hull * Choir Stalls at

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*{{cite journal , last1=Wells , first1=Griffith T. , title=Sculpture in the garden: Some interesting work by the Bromsgrove Guild, of Worcestershire, England , journal=Arts & Decoration , date=May 1912 , volume=2 , issue=7 , pages=260–261 , jstor=43799690 19th-century art groups Arts and Crafts movement