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Just over a hundred years ago, Louisa Harris commissioned Sir Guy Dawber (a founder of @CPRE & a President of @RIBA) to design a remarkable Arts & Crafts style private chapel.
St John the Baptist, Matlock Bath, was built into a cliff face overlooking the Derwent Valley.
St John the Baptist, Matlock Bath, was built into a cliff face overlooking the Derwent Valley.
Louisa Harris assembled a glittering array of artists to realise her dream, including Louis Davis, "the last of the Pre-Raphaelites", who designed the water-themed stained glass in the east window ...
- and George Bankart, an architect who specialised in ornamental plasterwork, and who created the barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling (including tiny birds flying across the plaster!).
