Victorian Architecture
The Victorian Society Summer School
10-25 July 1999
English architecture 1830-1914
The Victorian Society's 25th 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. 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 and pubs, 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 five-day tour to the Midlands and the North of
England led by Gavin Stamp, during which one night is spent in Birmingham
and three in Liverpool.
Students see houses by Street, Voysey, Lutyens and Philip Webb, as well as
visiting developments such as Port Sunlight (1888 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) 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 Peckforton Castle (Salvin, 1844-52), Wightwick Manor (Grayson &
Ould, 1887, 1893), Kings Cross (Lewis Cubitt, 1850-52) and St Pancras
stations (Gilbert Scott, 1865-74), Highgate Cemetery 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, Rosemary Hill, Wendy Hitchmough, Peter Howell,
Jeremy Musson, Dr Rory O'Donnell, Professor Andrew Sanders, Professor Andrew
Saint, Teresa Sladen, Robert Thorne, John Vaughan and Professor Clive
Wainwright.
DIRECTORS
Ian Dungavell is a lecturer at Sotheby's Institute, London, and 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 trip north. The Academic Advisory Board, whose
members are listed overleaf, provides advice to the directors about the
academic programme.
LOCATION
The Summer School is based at Schafer House, a University College of London
hall of residence in central London, a short walk from Regent's Park.
Accommodation is self-catering in single study-bedrooms arranged in flats
with shared bathrooms and kitchens.
FEES
The course will run from the evening of Saturday 10 July to the morning of
Sunday 25 July 1999. The residential fee of GBP 999 (pounds sterling)
includes accommodation in London and during the tour to the Midlands and the
North of England, lectures, visits, entrance fees, coach transport outside
London and some meals. The non-residential fee of GBP 849 includes all this
except accommodation in London. A limited number of scholarships may be
available for suitable candidates without other means of sponsorship; please
contact us for information about scholarships as soon as possible.
APPLICATIONS
Applications must reach us by 12 March 1999. 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 GBP
350 for residential students and GBP 250 for non-residential students is
required on acceptance of a place.
Please write to us for an application form, or use the one on our website:
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
http://www.btinternet.com/~vsss
The Victorian Society is a registered charity, no. 210707.