Benjamin Creswick
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Benjamin Creswick (1853 - 1946) was a sculptor, active in the Birmingham area in the 1880s-1920s at least.
He was also a member of the Century Guild of Artists which aimed "to render all branches of art the sphere no longer of the tradesman but of the artist".
Creswick moved to Birmingham to work at the School of Art, as Master of Modelling and Modelled Design, from 1889-1918. He exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Arts in 1914 and was responsible for a number of architectural sculptures, which can still be seen on Birmingham buildings.
He lived at a house called Elmwood, in Jockey Road, Sutton Coldfield.
Works
- Boldmere Swimming Club memorial (1921) - now inside the swimming baths entrance of Wyndley Leisure Centre in Birmingham.
- Bust of John Ruskin
- carved figures on the choirstalls, Unitarian Church, Wallasey, Merseyside
External links
- The Century Guild (http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/other/century.htm)
- Boldmere Swimming Club memorial (http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/bscmemorial)
- Bust of John Ruskin (http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/gallery/works30.xli.html)
- Unitarian Church, Wallasey, Merseyside (http://www.hct.org.uk/chapel8wallasey.html)