From the Jerusalem Diary of Eric Gill

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But we don’t have the cushion of being a national organisation: we don’t receive public funding; we are a small charity that depends on visitors and philanthropy.

However, following the revelations about Jimmy Savile and others, the atmosphere has begun to shift. They were kept away from other children their age and raised in his own notion of ‘holy poverty’ in a house at Hopkins Crank, a few miles north of Ditchling Village. The work, a giant torso, was modelled by Angela Gill and shown at the Goupil Gallery in London, to considerable acclaim, before being purchased by the artist Eric Kennington. Even before the Leeds memorial controversy, Gill's series of illustrations that included the Nuptials of God, The Convert and Divine Lovers and his views on the sexual nature of Christianity were causing alarm within the Roman Catholic hierarchy and distancing Gill from other members of the Ditchling community.A page is devoted to Gill and the stone carvings he did for another Bognor church, St John’s Church, demolished in the early 1970s.

In 2016, some residents in Ditchling objected to a proposal to erect a plaque by the village war memorial which would have identified Gill as the maker of the monument.Probably that is why the contradiction of values and morality present in his own life never occurred to Gill as a form of internal conflict. He completed The Four Gospels, widely considered to be the finest of all the books produced by the Golden Cockerel Press, and began working on the sculpture Prospero and Ariel for the BBC's Broadcasting House in London. As part of his deviated study on animals he would examine ‘specimens of semen from self and spaniel dog under a microscope’. Arthur Tidman Gill had left the Congregational Church in 1878 over doctrinal disagreements and became a minister of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, a grouping of Calvinist Methodists. We are very well aware that certain parts of our audience are not going to want to look at this exhibition.