Guild and School of Handicraft

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The Guild and School of Handicraft was established in 1888 in London, later moving to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, England, as a community of artists and craftspeople by the arts and crafts architect Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942). According to Historic England it "became one of the foremost Arts and Crafts workshops of its period .. formed the focus of the communal life which, as a pioneering social experiment, formed the most bold and important expression of Arts and Crafts principles".

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Commemorated on 1 plaque

To this silk mill C. R. Ashbee brought his Guild of Handicraft from London in 1902

The Old Silk Mill, Sheep Street, Chipping Campden, United Kingdom where it was