19th century architecture in England - Summer School

[Victorian Society Summer School]

THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY LONDON SUMMER SCHOOL 1998

English Architecture 1830-1914
London 4-23 July 1998

The Victorian Society's annual Summer School offers an authoritative,
vigorous and entertaining survey of England's Victorian and Edwardian
architecture. The Summer School is based in London and includes study tours
to other parts of England and Wales. The focus is architectural, but the
course also touches on urban and social history, garden design and the
decorative arts. Students are privileged to have access to many buildings
not generally open to the public.
The Summer School is aimed at architectural historians, architects,
planning officers, students of nineteenth-century history, museum curators
and those involved with the preservation of nineteenth-century buildings.
However, anyone with a serious interest in the art and architecture of
Victorian and Edwardian Britain will find it stimulating. You do not have
to be a member of the Victorian Society. The programme is designed to allow
students to see and do as much as possible; there is little free time and
there are many walking tours.

VISITS
Visits are made to a variety of buildings designed by leading Victorian and
Edwardian architects. Many are churches, public buildings or private
houses. But other aspects of nineteenth-century architecture -- railway
stations, cemeteries, pubs and pumping stations, for example -- are not
neglected either. Many buildings are opened especially for our visit. The
various factors influencing their design are considered in depth, as well as
the problems associated with their conservation, restoration and re-use. A
highlight of the Summer School is the six-day tour to the Midlands, the
North of England and Wales led by Gavin Stamp, during which one night is
spent in Birmingham, three in Liverpool, and one in Cardiff.
Students see houses by Street, Voysey, Lutyens and Philip Webb, as well as
visiting pioneering developments such as Bedford Park (1875 onwards) and
Hampstead Garden Suburb (founded 1906). Important churches such as St
Giles, Cheadle (Pugin, 1841-46), All Saints, Margaret Street (Butterfield,
1849-59), St James the Less, Westminster (Street, 1860-61), St Augustine,
Pendlebury (Bodley and Garner, 1870-74) and Westminster Cathedral (Bentley,
1895-1902) also feature in the programme. So too does a variety of public
buildings including the Houses of Parliament (Barry, 1840-70), the Foreign
Office (Gilbert Scott, 1861-74), the Town Halls at Northampton (Godwin,
1861-64) and Manchester (Waterhouse, 1868-77), St George's Hall, Liverpool
(Elmes, 1841-54), Cardiff City Hall and Law Courts (Lanchest-er, Stewart and
Rickards, 1897-1904) and the Victoria Law Courts, Birmingham (Webb and Bell,
1887-91). In Oxford, students visit Keble College (Butterfield, 1868-83)
and the University Museum (Deane and Woodward, 1854-60). Other buildings
visited include Cardiff Castle (Burges, from 1866), Kings Cross (Lewis
Cubitt, 1850-52) and St Pancras stations (Gilbert Scott, 1865-74), Abbey
Mills Pumping Station (1868), and the Mersey Docks. A fuller list is posted
on our website.

LECTURES
Visits are supported by lectures from leading experts in the United Kingdom.
Among the topics covered are: the history and growth of Victorian London;
working class housing; the Oxford and Cambridge Movements; the Gothic
Revival; the Iron Revolution; the Classical Tradition; the Domestic Revival;
public house decoration; the Arts and Crafts Movement and Victorian and
Edwardian gardens.
In past years lecturers and guides have included Dr Roger Bowdler, John
Brandon-Jones, Dr Chris Brooks, Jane Brown, Alan Cox, Alan Crawford, Kate
Crowe, Dr Edward Diestelkamp, Dr William Filmer-Sankey, Dr Celina Fox, Clare
Hartwell, Elain Harwood, Wendy Hitchmough, Peter Howell, Jeremy Musson, Dr
Rory O'Donnell, Professor Andrew Sanders, Professor Andrew Saint, Teresa
Sladen, Robert Thorne, John Vaughan and Dr Clive Wainwright.

DIRECTORS
Ian Dungavell is an architectural historian and lecturer who is researching
the work of Sir Aston Webb and Ingress Bell. He is a committee member of
the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. David Crellin is
an architectural historian and lecturer who is researching the late work of
Sir Edwin Lutyens. Dr Gavin Stamp, architectural historian, journalist, and
lecturer at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, will lead the
tour of the North. An Academic Advisory Board provides advice to the
directors about the academic programme.

LOCATION
The Summer School is based at John Adams Hall, a University of London hall
of residence in Bloomsbury, central London, not far from the British Museum
and St Pancras Station.

FEES
The course will run from the evening of Saturday 4 July to the morning of
Thursday 23 July 1998. The residential fee of 1250 pounds includes bed and
breakfast accommodation in London and during the tour to the Midlands, the
North of England and Wales, lectures, visits, entrance fees, coach transport
outside London and some meals. The non-residential fee of 950 pounds
includes all this except accommodation in London. A limited number of
scholarships may be available for suitable candidates without other means of
sponsorship; please ask for information about scholarships as soon as
possible. American applicants should contact the address given below for
information about US dollar pricing.

APPLICATIONS
(Applicants resident in the United States of America, please see below.)
Applications must reach us by 13 March 1998. You are advised to apply
early, as applications will be considered in the order they are received.
Successful applicants will be notified in the first week of April. Late
applications may be considered if places are available. A deposit of 350
pounds for residential students and 250 pounds for non-residential students
is required on acceptance of a place.

Please address your request for an application form and any other
correspondence to:
The Victorian Society Summer School
1 Priory Gardens
London W4 1TT
ENGLAND

Telephone + 44 (0) 181 994 1019
Facsimile + 44 (0) 181 995 4895
Email vs...@btinternet.com
Website www.btinternet.com/~vsss

FOR RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Separate admission procedures apply. Please contact:
Elizabeth Caffry
Victorian Society Summer Schools
217 East 85th Street, Suite 139
New York, NY 10028

Telephone 212 971 2457
Email Vics...@aol.com
Website www.libertynet.org/~vicsoc