Event Type Country visit
july
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£70 members, All day Members will make private visits to two significant Georgian houses, both owing their prosperity to the cloth industry pioneered by their early owners. We start at Corsham
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£70 members, All day
Members will make private visits to two significant Georgian houses, both owing their prosperity to the cloth industry pioneered by their early owners. We start at Corsham Court (Grade I), originally a medieval house owned by the Crown. Despite its Elizabethan appearance, little remains of the major rebuilding in 1582 by Thomas Smythe, collector of customs in London. After several ownership changes, Corsham was acquired in 1747 by Paul Methuen (died 1792), whose descendants still live there. They remodelled it over the next century in many styles – Palladian (Ireson and Brown), Gothic (Nash) and neo-Elizabethan (Bellamy, whose tower of 1846 dominates the N front) – successive architects replacing their predecessors’ changes. Brown, then Repton, landscaped the park. We will see the renowned old masters first collected by Sir Paul Methuen (died 1757) and extended by 2nd Lord Methuen (died 1891).
Seend Manor House (Grade II*), was owned by the Awdry family 1695-c1924. Ambrose Awdry built what became the manor house c 1695, mainly on the site of the lower 2-storey N front range of the present house. His grandson Ambrose rebuilt and extended this in ashlar to the S from 1767 (rainwater heads). This handsome taller 5-bay, 2-storey elevation, with a parapet and dormers in a mansard roof, has a dramatic long view towards Salisbury Plain. The W end intriguingly features 11 blind windows and ornamental detail on the chimneystack. The N elevation was remodelled c 1800, rendered with ashlar dressings and a tripartite window above the Ionic porch. Most of the interior is original and has been atmospherically conserved by the present owners, Stephen and Amanda Clark, the designer, who have created a remarkable and exotic walled garden.
Andrew Wells leads.
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Time
All Day (Tuesday)
Location
Corsham Court
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£25, Morning By kind permission of the Sunley family, members of the Georgian Group are invited to visit Godmersham Park. The present Godmersham Park house was built in 1732 in Palladian style
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£25, Morning
By kind permission of the Sunley family, members of the Georgian Group are invited to visit Godmersham Park.
The present Godmersham Park house was built in 1732 in Palladian style for Thomas Brodnax whose family had lived at Godmersham since the mid-16th century. The architect is unknown but Christopher Hussey appraised it in Country Life in 1945 thus:
“the quality…implies a London man of status of Flitcroft or Roger Morris – scholarly Palladians yet acquainted with the English tradition…Godmersham’s charm consists to a great extent in its having been conceived on a relatively modest scale of a country gentleman’s house but executed…with the fastidiousness of the greatest houses of the period – the age of Holkham, Houghton and Wentworth Woodhouse.”
The house is best known today as the home of Jane Austen’s brother, Edward Knight, who moved in in 1797 having acquired the house through this cousin, Thomas Brodnax May Knight (son of the aforementioned Thomas). On your tour you will be guided around House, Gardens, Heritage Centre and St Lawrence the Martyr Church by trustee and conservation architect Rebecca Lilley, who wrote her 2022 Masters Dissertation on Godmersham Park.
The house is not usually available for public viewing and has been opened especially for the group.
Members to make their own arrangements for transport. This visit is for members’ only.
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Image: Rebecca Lilley
Time
(Wednesday) 10:30 am
Location
Godmersham Park
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East Anglian Regional Group Lectures: Neo-Georgian Architecture in the 20th Century Lecturers: Dr Patrick Goode, FSA & George Carter, FSA Thursday 15th August, 2 – 5.30 pm at Silverstone Farm & All Saints,
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East Anglian Regional Group
Lectures: Neo-Georgian Architecture in the 20th Century
Lecturers: Dr Patrick Goode, FSA & George Carter, FSA
Thursday 15th August, 2 – 5.30 pm at Silverstone Farm & All Saints, Bawdeswell
Dr Patrick Goode is a member of the Twentieth Century Society and was co-editor, with Sir Colin St. John Wilson, of The Oxford Companion to Architecture, OUP, 2010.
NEO-GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE 20thC
Dr Patrick Goode
&
NEO-GEORGIAN BUILDINGS IN NORFOLK
George Carter
To be followed by a visit to All Saints, Bawdeswell to see the church by James Fletcher Watson, built in 1953
The talks will take place at Silverstone Farm, North Elmham, NR20 5EX, by kind permission of George Carter.
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Image: Bishop’s Palace, Norwich
Time
(Thursday) 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Silverstone Farm
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£40 (exc. lunch), all day The Grade I listed Piece Hall, Halifax is the only remaining Georgian cloth hall in the world, the sole survivor of the great eighteenth century northern
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£40 (exc. lunch), all day
The Grade I listed Piece Hall, Halifax is the only remaining Georgian cloth hall in the world, the sole survivor of the great eighteenth century northern cloth halls, a class of buildings which embodied the vital and dominant importance of the trade in hand woven textiles to the pre-industrial economy of the West Riding of Yorkshire, from the Middle Ages through to the early nineteenth century. The tour will be led by LDN architects, who led an extensive regeneration project completed in 2017.
Just a mile from Halifax centre, Grade II* Shibden Hall dates to 1420. Home of renowned diarist Anne Lister (1791-1840), significant changes to the architecture of Shibden Hall were made whilst she lived there. She employed the architect John Harper of York to make improvements, including the addition of a Norman-style tower c1836 for her library with modern water closets. The main hall was also re-opened to the height of the building and a gallery, new ‘Jacobethan’ panelling and a fireplace were all installed, making the space more imposing.
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Time
All Day (Wednesday)
Location
The Piece Hall
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£30, Afternoon As the ancestral home of the 9th Marquess & Marchioness of Hertford, Ragley Hall was designed for Lord Conway by Roger or William Hurlbut circa 1677 and modified by
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£30, Afternoon
As the ancestral home of the 9th Marquess & Marchioness of Hertford, Ragley Hall was designed for Lord Conway by Roger or William Hurlbut circa 1677 and modified by Robert Hooke in 1678. The east or entrance facade is dominated by a full-height portico supported on Ionic columns which was added by James Wyatt in 1778. The park landscaped by Capability Brown in 1757, with late 19th Century formal gardens laid out by Robert Marnock.
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Time
(Wednesday) 2:00 pm
Location
Ragley Hall