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The names of many of Watts & Co.’s vestment styles and fabrics are inspired by saints, including the Neri chasuble, the St Nicolas damask, and the St John damask, to...

Q: Do you have a favourite signature embroidery or pattern from Watts; what makes it special? A: I would say the Gothic silk damasks. Our Gothic is one of the...

While Watts & Co would become renowned for its clerical dress and ecclesiastical items, interior design commissions for stately homes predominated the practice in the firm’s earliest years. The earliest...

‘It is a happy circumstance, that the style which on its own intrinsic merits recommends itself as the groundwork of the future, is that which above all others is calculated to enlist our love and sympathy, from its association with the past’. --- Sir George Gilbert Scott, Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture, Present and Future (1857).   Sir George Gilbert Scott, one of the most prolific 19th...

The Public Worship Regulation Act  1874 was a year of aesthetic transition in England. The Public Worship Regulation Act was passed in order to curtail elements of High Anglican ritualism,...

  Our final station stop, where this service terminates.     Westminster is quite a station. Of the original, opened in 1868, there is nothing left, but all is now part...