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STANLEY SPENCER

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Our reporter Nicola Stanbridge spoke to his daughter Unity Spencer and went to see the renovation of his gallery in, as he describes, his beloved Cookham…

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Holy Trinity Church, Cookham


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The gallery in the process of renovation
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listen againSpencer's CookhamÌýfrom the eyes ofÌývolunteer Chrissy Rosenthal.

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Sir Stanley Spencer was one of the most original British painters of the 20th Century. The public often found his religious and erotic works difficult, prefering instead the quinitsentially English landscapes and portraits inspired by Cookham, the Berkshire village in which he was born. Now Stanley Spencer is undergoing somewhat of a revival. The Imperial War museum is restoring his Shipbuilding on the Clyde series and a Heritage Lottery grant means the Spencer Gallery in the old Chapel in Cookham is being modernised and reopened.


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