Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dame Werburg Welch, OSB (1894-1990) was an English artist and Benedictine nun.Born as Eileen Welch in Cheltenham, she was sent to Holy Trinity School, Kidderminster, shortly after it was founded. She was always interested in art and attended the Southampton School of Art and the Bristol Art School.In 1915 she entered Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire as a novice. In 1919 she became Dame Werburg. Welch continued to study art under Desmond Chute and Eric Gill from whom she derived her angular style.