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Trinity Theatre and Arts Centre is situated inside the historic Holy Trinity Church building in Tunbridge wells. The building was designed by the renowned Victorian architect Decimus Burton and is central to his architectural vision, which as Marc Girouard describes in his letter to Tunbridge Wells Council regarding the impending demolition of the building; ‘The civilized life, based on friendly, liveable-in houses grouped round public buildings that are not too large in scale, amid open spaces that bring the country into the town.’
In 1974, when the Church Commissioners deemed the building ‘redundant to pastoral needs’, the church was left empty and once again it turned to the local community to make its feelings known. The Tunbridge Wells Civic Society raised a petition which led to the commissioners giving the Society one year to find an alternate public use for the building. The agreement was then made that the building would be a community and arts centre and in only 6 months £50,000 was raised in a campaign in which the public were asked to contribute. The lease was signed in January 1977.
Since then, the theatre has undergone several refurbishments and upgrades, and commits itself to conserving and sharing its heritage with the town and wider community.
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