Arthur Stansfeld Dixon (26 August 1856 – 8 January 1929) was an English metal worker and architect. Born in

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, he was the eldest son of education reformer and MP George Dixon. He founded the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft and designed their headquarters in Great Charles Street. The building is still extant, but converted to offices. He also designed the Romanesque style, brick-built Church of St John & St Basil (1910–1911) in Heath Mill Lane in Birmingham's Digbeth district It was described by Nicholas Pevsner as "the finest example of his Arts and Crafts primitivism". A further church design was St Andrew's Church, Barnt Green,

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In 1917, he was commissioned to design

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; construction began in 1922 but was only completed in 1996 after the original plans were rediscovered. In 1923, along with Holland W. Hobbiss he helped to design the rebuild of St Giles Church, Rowley Regis, after it was burned downed. It is the 4th building on that site. His son James, serving in the

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during

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, was killed aged 22. Pevsner described Dixon as "an Anglo-Catholic Socialist who associated Gothic with establishment conservatism and dreary

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piety".

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Arthur Stansfeld Dixon
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Arthur Stansfeld 1856 births 1929 deaths Anglo-Catholic socialists English Christian socialists Architects from Birmingham, West Midlands