A village museum by the pond, telling the story of the artists and craftspeople who made Ditchling a centre of British craft
In an old school building beside the village pond, this small museum tells the story of the craftspeople who settled in Ditchling in the early twentieth century. The sculptor and letter-cutter Eric Gill was the best known of them, and around him gathered calligraphers, weavers, printers and silversmiths, some of whom formed a Catholic craft guild on the hill above the village. The collection gathers their carvings, lettering, textiles and printing. Gill’s own reputation is darkened by the abuse revealed in his diaries after his death, which the museum does not hide. Entry is ticketed, and Ditchling sits under the South Downs, with Ditchling Beacon a climb to the south.
