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1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge published 'Lyrical Ballads' and heralded the start of the Romantic Movement. Ideas and emotions take precedence over reason.  

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1833 the first of the 'Tracts for the Times' published calling for a renewal of the church in Britain.

In 1840 - 42 Sarah Losh created the church at Wreay in a totally new and 'free' style.

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In 1851 William Morris famously refused to enter the Great Exhibition because of the appallingly bad taste of most of the exhibits

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In 1859 William Morris married Jane Burden and commissioned his friend Philip Webb to deign their new home - Red House in Bexleyheath. It was decorated by Morris, his wife and their friends including Edward Burne-Jones - the first 'Arts and Crafts' house.

Twenty years later the same team designed the church of St Martin at Brampton - the first 'Arts and Crafts' church.

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Scroll through the illustrations of the churches to see when they were built

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