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  • 2. Watts Gallery - Artists' Village Guildford
    The Watts Cemetery Chapel or Watts Mortuary Chapel is a chapel and in an Art Nouveau version of Celtic Revival style in the village cemetery of Compton in Surrey. While the overall architectural structure is loosely Romanesque Revival, in the absence of any appropriate Celtic models, the lavish decoration in terracotta relief carving and paintings is Celtic Revival, here seen on an unusually large scale. According to the local council, it is a unique concoction of art nouveau, Celtic, Romanesque and Egyptian influence with Mary's own original style. Other responses have been less positive. Ian Nairn, in the 1971 Surrey volume of the Buildings of England series, described the interior as one of the most soporific rooms in England and regretted the intolerable torpor and weariness of the mot...
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  • 3. The Lightbox Woking
    The Museum of the Year Award, formerly known as the Gulbenkian Prize and the Art Fund Prize, is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the United Kingdom for a track record of imagination, innovation and excellence. A single award of £100,000, Britain's biggest single art prize, is presented to a museum or gallery, large or small, anywhere in the UK, whose entry, in the opinion of the judges, best demonstrates a track record of imagination, innovation and excellence through work mainly undertaken during the previous calendar year.The Museum Prize Trust was established to create an annual prize for museums in Britain in 2001. The first prize, at that time known as the Gulbenkian Prize, was awarded in 2003. The principal sponsor from 2003 to 2007 was the Lisbon-based Calouste Gul...
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  • 4. Guildford House Gallery Guildford
    Compton is a village and civil parish in the Guildford district of Surrey, England. It is between Godalming and Guildford. It has a medieval church and a close connection to fine art and pottery, being the later life home of artist George Frederic Watts. The village has considerable woodland and agriculture, and the undeveloped portions are in the Metropolitan Green Belt. The village is traversed by the North Downs Way and has a large western conservation area. Central to the village are the Watts Gallery, the cemetery chapel commissioned by his wife for him, two inns and the parish church.
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