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Holy Trinity Church, Dalston

19th-century Church of England church buildingsChurch of England church buildings in the London Borough of HackneyChurches completed in 1879ClowningDalston
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Holy Trinity Church, Dalston in Hackney
Holy Trinity Church, Dalston in Hackney

Holy Trinity Church, Dalston, also known as the Clowns’ Church, is a Church of England parish church in Beechwood Road in the London Borough of Hackney. It is in the parish of Holy Trinity with St Philip Dalston and All Saints Church, Haggerston (St Philip having been bombed during World War II and demolished some time between 1947 and 1952).From 1998 to 2014, the vicar was Rose Hudson-Wilkin, who also holds the roles of Speaker’s chaplain to the House of Commons, priest vicar at Westminster Abbey and chaplain to the Queen.

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Holy Trinity Church, Dalston
Cumberland Close, London Dalston (London Borough of Hackney)

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Holy C of E Trinity

Cumberland Close
E8 3TF London, Dalston (London Borough of Hackney)
England, United Kingdom
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Clowns Gallery-Museum
Clowns Gallery-Museum

The Clowns Gallery-Museum is a museum of clowning at Holy Trinity Church, Dalston, and Wookey Hole, Somerset, England. Established in 1959, the collection contains costumes and props from famous clowns, as well as a reference library, and is home to the Clown Egg Register, an archive of painted ceramic and hen's eggs which serve as a record of individual clowns' personal make-up designs.The clown egg tradition began in 1946, when Stan Bult, a chemist and founder of Clowns International, took to drawing the faces of club members and famous clowns onto chicken's eggs. The egg gallery was created because according to an unofficial rule, no two clowns are allowed to have the same makeup. In order to ensure that clowns weren't copying each other's makeup style, the practice of painting each unique design onto an egg began. Real eggs were originally used, but were later replaced with ceramic eggs. The gallery is open on the first Friday of each month. The collection is split between the museum's two sites.The museum was established in 1959 in Dalston and the collection was split to a venue in Wookey Hole in 2007. The Dalston museum is situated in what was the vestry of the Holy Trinity Church. It was threatened with closure in 2014, but remained in place. The Wookey Hole museum is run by Gerry Cottle, vice president of Clowns International.The museum is mentioned by Spencer Reid in season 13 episode 17 of the American crime drama Criminal Minds.