Faith Craft Artists and Designers

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Faith Craft in- house artists and designers before the Second World War were:

• William Lawson (Managing Director and chief designer) (William Lawson obituary in The Symbol),
• William Wheeler (Art Director of Faith Craft)
• Ian Howgate

After the war the Faith Craft in-house artists and designers were principally:

• George Baden Beadle
• Terence Randall
• Francis Stephens
• John Hayward
• John Lawson(Obituaries in the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian),

Other craftsmen also involved in some way with Faith Craft include Siegfried Pietsch who was a carver and decorator, Gordon Benningfield was a craftsman who painted windows at Faith Craft, Martin Travers, Laurence King and John Crawford.

Many of these artists worked for other organisations or to commission, and a work by them is not automatically also a Faith Craft Works product.

A useful website is Sussex Parish Churches which has a useful index of artists, including some who worked for Faith Craft.

A 1960 photograph of Faith Craft Designers with from our left – John Hayward, Terence Randall, Francis Stephens and Gordon Beningfield