The Pugin Society has an active programme of events and lectures. Non members welcome. For further details contact:
Professor Julia Twigg, 9 Nunnery Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3LS, UK. 01227 766879, j.m.twigg@kent.ac.uk
Cheques for all events payable to The Pugin Society. Send to Julia Twigg, 9 Nunnery Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3LS. Please assume that you have a place unless you hear to the contrary. If you would like confirmation of your booking, or want to make further enquiries, please enclose a SAE or ring 01227 766879, email j.m.twigg@kent.ac.uk
PUGIN SOCIETY EVENTS: SPRING/SUMMER 2008
St Augustine's Abbey Church, in Ramsgate adjacent to The Grange, is open to visitors from 2:00 to 4:00pm on the first Sunday of every month with Society members on hand to answer questions. Catriona Blaker, our Ramsgate representative, is the contact for this.
Thursday July 31- Sunday August 3: 'Pugin's Candlestick Maker': John Hardman of Birmingham
This year the study tour is based in Birmingham and the surrounding country, focusing the role of John Hardman in propagating and continuing the Pugin style long after the architect's death, and revealing the importance of Birmingham as a centre of the decorative arts in the Gothic Revival. The tour will be led Fr Michael Fisher, author Hardman of Birmingham: Goldsmith and Glasspainter. We will visit the Hardman works in Lightwood Park where we will be welcomed by Neil Phillips, Director of Hardman and Co. We plan to see Pugin textiles and embroideries at his Cathedral of St Chad's, and drawings and designs in the archives of the Art Gallery. On Friday we will travel out of Birmingham in pursuit of Hardman glass and domestic interiors. We will also visit Arbury Hall with its superb Gothick interiors installed by Sir Roger Newdegate at the end of the eighteenth century. We will be staying in ensuite accommodation in the Paragon Hotel, Alcester St, a grade II Victorian building near the centre of Birmingham. Included: B&B, two evening meals, coaches and entries.
Single room: £285 per person. Double room: £240 per person
Saturday 20 September: Pugin and South London
A day by coach, led by Rosemary Hill, beginning at Southwark (Anglican) cathedral where Pugin's tabernacle, formerly at St Augustine's, is now installed. We shall see what survives of his work at St George's Catholic Cathedral and his church of St Peter at Woolwich. As well as Pugin's own work, we also hope to look at St Giles Camberwell by Gilbert Scott, the first important church built under his influence - glass by Ruskin - and two churches he knew and disliked, which nevertheless cast some light on his own architecture, St Peter Walworth, by Soane and Our Lady of Victories by Wardell at Clapham. The day will end with drinks at Rosemary's office in Pilgrims Cloisters, Peckham. Built in 1837 as almshouses in the Gothic style by an unknown architect, they show how close Pugin's Contrasts was to the mood of the moment. Meet at Southwark Cathedral at 11.00. Cost £23, and SAE for confirmation.
Saturday 1 November, 12noon: AGM at Art Workers Guild, Queens Square, London WC1