Church and patronage in 20th century Britain: walter hussey and the arts

This is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester Cathedral.

He was responsible for the most significant sequence of works of art commissioned for the British churches in the 20th century.

They included music by Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein and William Walton, visual art by Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Marc Chagall, and poetry by W.H.

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