The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art - YaJe University Issue 20 June 2005

Restoring Hawksmoor

A Symposium at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art on Friday 23 September 2005, with a Study Day tour in east and on Saturday 24 September.

To celebrate restoration of St George's depth will be given by cons1derat1on of included. For the vis1ts on Saturday 24 Church, Bloomsbury. substantially funded the histories ofthree other Queen Anne September to Sp1talfields, Greenwich by the estate of Paul Mellon and by the churches by Hawksmoor: St Anne's (to include recent conversion of Hentage Lottery Fund, the Paul Mellon Limehouse (reconstructed after tire in Hawksmoor 's work at the Hospital), Centre is organising this symposium with the second half of the n1neteenth Limehouse and Shadwell, transport and the World Monuments Fund in Britain. century), St Alfege's, Greenwich, and St expert guiding will be prov1ded but lunch The work at St George's has revealed George's-in-the-East at Shadwell (both will have to be purchased whi le in new information about the history ofthe gutted by bombs in 1941 and rebuilt in Greenwich. Tickets cost £:25 (L I S building in the eighteenth and nineteenth diametrically opposed ways). concessions). centuries and raised fundamental questions about the nature of The symposium on Friday 23 September All tickets sho uld be purchased by conservation and restoration in the early will take place at the Paul Mellon Centre se nding a cheque for the re levant twenty-first century. The recent parallel and w 1ll conclude with a visit to and amount and a self-addressed envetope case ofthe internal restoration of Christ reception at St George's, Bloomsbury. to Malsoon Rehani at the Paul Mellon Church Sp1talfie lds adds to the timely Tickets cost 00 (£.20 concessions), with Centre for Studies in British Art, nature of this symposium. and further coffee, lunch, tea and the reception 16 Square, london WC1B 3JA.

16 Bedford Square London WC1 B 3JA Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk Paul Mellon Centr symposium Restoring Hawksmoor

Nicholas Hawksmoor. interior of St Alfegc's. Greenwich, as rebu1ll by Albert Richardson L>y 1953

10.00 Introduction 12.40 Discussion Frank Salmon (Paul Mellon Centre) 13.00 Lunch

10.10 Hawksmoor in Perspective 14.00 The Hawksmoor Archive Kerry Downes Kevin Rogers (World Monuments Fund in Britain) 10.40 Hawksmoor's Design Process and Achievement in the Early 14.30 A Different "Modern": H. S. Commission Churches Goodhart Rendel on Hawksmoor Michael Ramirez Alan Powers (University of ) (University of Greenwich)

II. I 0 Coffee 15.00 Hawksmoor Redeemed? The Fates of his Churches 11.40 Hawksmoor a nd Halicarnassus since 1945 Pierre du Prey Gavin Stamp (Queen's University) 15.30 Teo 12.10 Orientation in Hawksmoor Churches Jason Ali 16.00 Tour of St George's Bloomsbury (University of Hong Kong) followed by drinks in the Vestry House 2