Thomas Combe and Martha Combe blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Thomas Combe 1796-1872 printer to the University, Martha Combe 1806-1893 founders of this church, philanthropists and patrons of the Pre-Raphaelite movement Recorded plaque organisation: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, Friends of St Barnabus.

Thomas Combe was a printer to the University of Oxford, while Martha Combe co-founded St. John's Church in Bridgend; both were notable philanthropists and patrons of the Pre-Raphaelite artists, significantly supporting the arts in Victorian Britain.