Craftsman's Art and Music's Measure

St Martin-on-the-hill, Scarborough

This weekend we have a parish celebration of flowers, embroidery, stained glass and church music.

It is a fund raising event for our glass appeal. The repairs to our celebrated stained glass windows is in progress and two panels will be on show from the East Window - one restored and one not - so that visitors can see how the process will improve the glass.

The embroidery will include many items from our vestment collection.

Those who do not know the church will be interested in the following information:

Two Churches and a Vicarage built by G F Bodley and decorated by the Pre-Raphaelites.
3,500 people living on Scarborough South Cliff, once a glorious Edwardian seaside resort.

Two Sunday schools, a choir, servers, a Crèche, social and catechetical (teaching) groups and large Sunday congregations.

The Revd Anthony Mills is our Vicar.

Our wonderful 150 year old stained-glass windows are now in need of some TLC and we have launched a public appeal. Some of the cost is being met by English Heritage and The Heritage Lottery Fund but we still need to raise £50,000.

St Martin’s is the perfect High Victorian church.

In its history and within its walls can be found every sort of Victorian concern and obsession.

It was brought into being by the rapid urban expansion of the 1850s and it was made possible (typically) by the great generosity of a Victorian spinster.

Its outer form and furnishings are the product of the medievalism of Victorian art: determined to recall an earlier Age of Faith, its robust realism and its involved symbolism.

The church of St Martin, Scarborough, remains to this day the physical and spiritual heir to the love of ritual in worship which came out of Oxford in the 1840s.

St Martin’s represents an increasingly precious inherit ance in art. history and worship.