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Your support helps us employ four dedicated Conservation Advisers who travel across England and Wales giving expert advice on planning applications affecting Georgian buildings and gardens. Quite often, especially with buildings listed Grade II, we are the only voice speaking up for a threatened part of our heritage. Membership also includes:
- Annual Georgian Group Journal
- Twice-yearly magazine
- Access to member events including lectures, walks and country visits
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£5 members/£7 non-members Arthur and John Morris played an important role in the development of Coombe, Firle and Glynde Places in Sussex and worked on houses in Lewes. They dealt directly
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Arthur and John Morris played an important role in the development of Coombe, Firle and Glynde Places in Sussex and worked on houses in Lewes. They dealt directly with clients even when there was an architect. Amon and Amon Henry Wilds worked mainly in two towns, Amon Henry shifting from builder to architect. He made a big impact on Brighton, designing houses, projects, churches and chapels. There must have been many more local entrepreneurs like these and we need to know more about them. The Wilds moved to Brighton and undertook speculative development as well as worked for clients. The Morris family did not, Lewes did not offer the same opportunities. Sue Berry will investigate these interesting characters.
The talk starts at 6.30pm.
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£15 members/£18 non-members Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines the East India Company’s impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent’s built environment in the context of defence, urbanisation, and infrastructural development.
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Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines the East India Company’s impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent’s built environment in the context of defence, urbanisation, and infrastructural development. Railways, docks, municipal buildings, freemasons’ lodges, hotels, race-courses, barracks, cemeteries, statues, canals—everything the British erected made a political statement, even if unconsciously. She assesses, in turn, Indian responses to the changing landscape. Indians often reacted favourably to new manufacturing technologies from Britain, like minting and gunpowder, while the British learnt from and adapted local methods.
The talk starts at 6.30pm, doors open from 6.15pm.
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(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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6 Fitzroy Square
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£5- Saturday 23 March Restoration and Georgian churches are among the jewels of the West End's built environment. In our next YG event, Charlie Clegg will give a tour of
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£5- Saturday 23 March
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(Saturday) 10:30 am - 2:30 pm
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Book nowmon25mar10:30 amManchester Visit: Heaton HallVisit to Heaton Hall10:30 am Heaton HallBook now
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£25, morning Heaton Hall, a fine neo-classical building, was the ancestral home of the Egerton family. Sir Thomas Egerton, the 7th baronet, had the Hall rebuilt in the 1770s with James
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Heaton Hall, a fine neo-classical building, was the ancestral home of the Egerton family. Sir Thomas Egerton, the 7th baronet, had the Hall rebuilt in the 1770s with James Wyatt as architect. Sir Thomas, created Lord Grey de Wilton in 1784, and Earl of Wilton in 1801, was succeeded by his grandson, the second earl, in 1814. The Hall and the estate were sold to Manchester City Council in 1902. Heaton Park is the largest municipal park in Europe.
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(Monday) 10:30 am
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Heaton Hall
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£5 members/£7 non-members Cornwall is a place where history is never far below the surface. It is a place of myth and legend, ancient tales and romance. The Cornish country house
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Cornwall is a place where history is never far below the surface. It is a place of myth and legend, ancient tales and romance. The Cornish country house has been part of the history and a setting for mystery, legend and passion for centuries and has attracted many writers as a platform for great stories. Often the picture painted in fiction of Cornish houses is highly romantic – typically a rugged cliff top mansion, inhabited by a turbulent, but fascinating owner. The reality is a little more grounded. Cornishmen were usually too wise to build their houses on exposed cliff tops. Instead, Cornish houses were usually built in more sheltered places, often in beautiful valleys or screened by wonderful woods. Perhaps because these houses were built on sequestered and hidden sites, many are not that well known or recorded. In this talk, Patrick Newberry aims to remedy that lack of knowledge.
The talk starts at 6.30pm.
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(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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£70/£35 (student ticket) Following previous successful symposia, most recently that on ‘Architecture and Health, 1660-1830’, held at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in February 2023 and our Wren symposium held at Trinity College
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Following previous successful symposia, most recently that on ‘Architecture and Health, 1660-1830’, held at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in February 2023 and our Wren symposium held at Trinity College Oxford in April 2023 the subject for 2024 will be ‘Architecture and Design in Britain, 1815-1830’ led by Geoffrey Tyack of Oxford University.
Saturday 13 April 2023, 10am- 5.30pm
Art Workers’ Guild, London
Session 1
Geoffrey Tyack: John Nash and the making of Regency London
Rosemary Yallop: The Architecture of Gentility: Villa Books, tastemaking and the idea of ‘Home’
Session 2
Sue Berry: Designing the seaside resort 1815-1830: change along the south coast.
Steven Brindle: Canals and Docks
Session 3
Peter Lindfield: George Shaw of Uppermill, Yorkshire, and the Regency country house
Jonathan Kewley: Thomas Brine and the Isle of Man
Session 4
Rebecca Burrows: Human Stories: Understanding 18th century mental healthcare facilities through visual depictions
Chris Webster: Church-building in the Regency era
This provisional programme and could be subject to change.
Public tickets include a buffet lunch and drinks reception. A limited number of student tickets are available here.
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All Day (Saturday)
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Art Workers' Guild
6 Queen Square, WC1N 3AT
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£5 members/£7 non-members An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. Amy Boyington dismantles this myth - revealing instead that
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An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. Amy Boyington dismantles this myth – revealing instead that women were at the heart of the architectural patronage of the day, exerting far more influence and agency than has previously been recognised. Architectural drawing and design, discourse, and patronage were interests shared by many women in the eighteenth century. Far from being the preserve of elite men, architecture was a passion shared by both sexes, intellectually and practically, as long as they possessed sufficient wealth and autonomy.
The talk starts at 6.30pm.
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(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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£40 (exc. lunch), all day Winner of the Georgian Group Architectural Award for Restoration of a Georgian Building in an Urban Context Gainsborough’s House, the childhood home of one of Britain’s
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Winner of the Georgian Group Architectural Award for Restoration of a Georgian Building in an Urban Context Gainsborough’s House, the childhood home of one of Britain’s most important artists, recently reopened to the public on following a £10 million transformational redevelopment to create an international centre for Thomas Gainsborough, and the largest gallery in Suffolk. The museum now presents the world’s most comprehensive collection of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), telling the full story of the artist’s life and work, as well as showcasing the widespread influence he had on his contemporaries. The day will include a talk about the restoration project, an opportunity to view the gallery and a walking tour of Sudbury.
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All Day (Wednesday)
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Gainsborough's House
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£50 (inc. refreshments & lunch), all day In the heart of the English countryside on the Hampshire/Berkshire border, you’ll find the elegant, but intimate, Stratfield Saye House, home to the Dukes
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In the heart of the English countryside on the Hampshire/Berkshire border, you’ll find the elegant, but intimate, Stratfield Saye House, home to the Dukes of Wellington since 1818.
After the Battle of Waterloo the First Duke of Wellington or the Great Duke as he was universally known, was regarded as the saviour of his country and of Europe. A grateful nation voted a substantial sum of money to enable him to buy a house and an estate worthy of a great national hero. After considering many far grander properties, he chose Stratfield Saye.
Stratfield Saye House does not compare in either size or grandeur with the other great ducal houses and it was the Great Duke’s intention to build a huge palace in the north- east corner of the park, but fortunately the money was not available. He therefore set about making his home convenient and comfortable and, as a very practical man, he was well satisfied with the results.
The House today is lived in by the 9th Duke of Wellington and his family. Whilst the Great Duke’s wonderful collection of pictures are at Apsley House, which was given to the nation by the 7th Duke in 1947, Stratfield Saye House contains a fascinating collection of paintings and furniture purchased by the Great Duke with many mementos of his occupation of his modest country home.
Members to make their own arrangements for transport. Refreshments and lunch are included in this visit. This visit is for members’ only.
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All Day (Tuesday)
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Stratfield Saye House
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£15 members/£18 non-members In the 1750s a debate unfolded in Rome as to which was superior: Greek or Roman art. Despite the publication of Vol.1 of Stuart and Revett’s Antiquities of Athens
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In the 1750s a debate unfolded in Rome as to which was superior: Greek or Roman art. Despite the publication of Vol.1 of Stuart and Revett’s Antiquities of Athens (1762), British architects and clients instinctively took their inspiration from Roman art for another generation or more. Steven Brindle considers the development of the Greek style in England, from its tentative and experimental mid-Georgian beginnings, to its sudden triumph in the Regency age, its establishment as the ‘public style’ in the 1810s and 20s, its relationship to the mainstream Neoclassicism of the late-Georgian age, its decline – and its somewhat different course in Scotland.
The talks starts at 6.30pm, doors open from 6.15pm.
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(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
6 Fitzroy Square
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£40, afternoon Set in the heart of Clerkenwell, the Charterhouse has been living the Nation’s history since 1348. Initially a Black Death burial ground, the site became home to the largest
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Set in the heart of Clerkenwell, the Charterhouse has been living the Nation’s history since 1348. Initially a Black Death burial ground, the site became home to the largest Carthusian monastery in the world until it was brutally dissolved in 1537 when 16 monks became proto-martyrs of the Reformation.
A grand Tudor mansion replaced the monastery. Elizabeth I spent the first days of her reign at the Charterhouse and James I (of England) created 133 Barons in the Great Chamber prior to his coronation. In 1611 Thomas Sutton acquired the mansion and site to house his new Charity, an almshouse and school. The school separated and moved out of London in 1872 but the almhouse thrives to this day amidst the medieval, Tudor, Jacobean and later architecture that makes the site so fascinating. This tour will include a guided tour of the Charterhouse, Master’s Lodge and a drinks reception in the Old Library.
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(Wednesday) 2:00 pm
Location
The Charterhouse
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£15 members/£18 non-members The gardens of the Earl of Burlington are among the most famous in the country but what do we know of the gardens which lay next door, and
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The gardens of the Earl of Burlington are among the most famous in the country but what do we know of the gardens which lay next door, and which were later acquired, adapted and incorporated into the present gardens?
Much new information has recently come to light on their history from the archives of Chatsworth House and elsewhere and will be the subject of this talk.
The talk starts at 6.30pm, doors open from 6.15pm.
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(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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CAMBRIDGESHIRE VISIT: Farm Hall and Island Hall, Godmanchester £75, all day These two handsome red brick Grade II* houses of the 1740s share many stylistic similarities, both playing significant roles in World
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CAMBRIDGESHIRE VISIT: Farm Hall and Island Hall, Godmanchester
£75, all day
These two handsome red brick Grade II* houses of the 1740s share many stylistic similarities, both playing significant roles in World War II. Each was built for an important public servant whose descendants included two distinguished generals. They are effectively country houses on the western edge of the small town of Godmanchester with views to the River Great Ouse.
Farm Hall was built in 1746 for Charles Clarke, a judge and MP. The north and south pedimented elevations are similar, of 3 storeys and 5 bays. The southern lime avenue dates from the 1740s, while a canal leads north to the Great Ouse. The owner, Prof Marcial Echenique, designed an obelisk to commemorate Farm Hall’s wartime intelligence use, while German scientists were interned there for six months in 1945 to elicit information about Germany’s nuclear plans.
Island Hall was built in 1749 for Original Jackson for his son John, Receiver-General for Huntingdon. The main elevations are identical, pedimented, of 3 storeys and 3 bays, with 2-storey, 2-bay wings. The house was bought in 1804 by Jacob Julian Baumgartner, a Swiss Huguenot merchant. His Vane Percy descendants still live there after nine generations, having repurchased it in 1983 following its wartime requisition by the RAF, subsequent conversion to council flats and a fire.
Andrew Wells will lead.
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All Day (Wednesday)
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£35 The summer - with some sunshine - will have arrived by June, so come and spend a sunny morning along the banks of the Thames discovering this beautiful stretch of
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The summer – with some sunshine – will have arrived by June, so come and spend a sunny morning along the banks of the Thames discovering this beautiful stretch of the River, with plenty of historical and contemporary themes.
We will discover a mortuary known as Dead Man’s Hole, English Delftware pottery and the Hanseatic League’s presence in the Steelyard. We will then move upstream to hear about Customs Houses alongside Geoffrey Chaucer, Roman docks alongside an operating freight wharf, while walking via stories of Baynard Castle and the pulpits of Blackfriars Bridge. We will also touch upon 1920s tiles, and twenty first century mosaics, before completing our summer saunter with seabird motifs and mudlarking tales. We will also discuss “shooting the rapids” at London Bridge, and the changing views of the London skyline.
The Walk will be led by Meg Ryder, a Londoner who hails from Pimlico and now lives in Camberwell. Meg is a qualified solicitor who left the law to establish bespoke walking tours in London to follow her passion for all things historical, artistic and architectural. Meg has a Masters in History from Edinburgh University, and studied History of Art and Architectural History in Rome.
The walk will begin at 10.30am. This event is for members only.
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Time
(Wednesday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Tower Bridge