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The church of St Michael & All Angels, Berwick village, East Sussex. THE 20TH CENTURY BLOOMSBURY MURALS: The church is of national, and arguably international, artistic and cultural significance on account of the extensive 20th Century Bloomsbury murals. These were commissioned by Bishop Bell of Chichester in 1941. They were executed by the Bloomsbury artists Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Quentin Bell who lived nearby at Charleston Farmhouse. The murals adorn the nave walls, the Chancel Screen, the pulpit and both sides of the Chancel Arch. The Altar frontal was also designed by Duncan Grant and worked by his mother.

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Christ breaking bread

This image is typical of the modernity of the work. Note the setting in the Sussex countryside, with the chalk mines and downs in the background, as well as the figures and their styling. Like the great Renaissance scenes from Christ's life, themselves set in real Italian contexts, this moving of the story into an English landscape is quite original in English art.

Christ breaking bread

Posted on 3rd October 2007 by Sussex

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