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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Please note that the Garden Kitchen café at Kettle’s Yard will be closed from Tuesday 21 – Friday 24 April inclusive for essential maintenance.

Kettle’s Yard house will close at 4pm on Friday 24 April with last entry to the house at 2.45pm. Please note the shop at Kettle’s Yard will remain open as usual to 5pm.

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Please note that the Garden Kitchen café at Kettle’s Yard will be closed from Tuesday 21 – Friday 24 April inclusive for essential maintenance.

Kettle’s Yard house will close at 4pm on Friday 24 April with last entry to the house at 2.45pm. Please note the shop at Kettle’s Yard will remain open as usual to 5pm.

Eric Gill

Born 1882 – Died 1940
Gill was born in Brighton. He took up inscription work in 1903. He ran the St. Dominic’s Press from Ditchling, Sussex, where he lived for a time with David Jones, who followed him to his second community of artists and craftsmen at Capel-y-Ffin in Wales. Gill designed many typefaces, two of which are still in common use, Monotype Perpetua and Gill Sans. He was also well respected for his sculpture and lithography, and produced illustrations for editions of the Four Gospels and of The Canterbury Tales.

Following the publication of Fiona MacCarthy’s biography, published in 1990, Gill has become ‘a figure of considerable controversy.’ (from Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill)