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September 2017 SEPTEMBER 2017 Celebrating our Heritage, DIARY of EVENTS 2017/2018 Enhancing our Environment, Shaping our Future Salisbury is a vibrant cathedral city, Amongst the many activities of the Society Thursday 21st September April (date tbc) surrounded by the beautiful countryside we: THE SECRET GARDEN PLANNING FORUM and villages of South Wiltshire. People Monitor and constructively comment visit it or decide to live here because it is a on planning applications and develop - by Becky Twigg 6.30 pm Methodist Church, St Edmund’s welcoming community, working and ment proposals 6.30 pm Methodist Church, St Edmund’s Church Street, Salisbury SP1 1EF trading in a marvellous historic setting. Church Street, Salisbury SP1 1EF Free to members: Non members £2.50 The challenges today are to maintain Run an active and stimulating Free to members: Non members £2.50 those attractive qualities and yet programme of events for members th accommodate ongoing changes in and the public Wednesday June 6 population, lifestyle, and the economy. Publish a quarterly magazine for Tuesday 21st November A G M , f o l l o w e d b y a t a l k o n S u b u r - members OPEN MEETING ban Salisbury, by Hadrian Cook The Salisbury Civic Society, founded in Maintain our support for the projects 1960, works to promote high standards of The Maltings Redevelopment 6.30 pm Methodist Church, St Edmund’s promoted by the former Salisbury contemporary design in all aspects of the 6.30 pm Alamein Suite, City Hall, Vision Church Street, Salisbury SP1 1EF built environment within Salisbury and Malthouse Lane, Salisbury SP2 7TU South Wiltshire, whilst safeguarding the Protect and celebrate the traditional Open to all historic buildings and landscape setting chequer names June (date tbc) underpinning the area’s special character. Run a prestigious new buildings and Back by popular demand, another Over the years, the role of the Society has conservation awards scheme 2018 visit to NORRINGTON MANOR expanded. Today, it is not only the Organise the annual Salisbury Historic See June 2017 magazine for details of how principal local organisation and guardian th Open Days and the Salisbury Blue Thursday 11 January to book for visits for the built environment, but also Plaques scheme celebrating our NEW YEAR PARTY AND ANNUAL celebrates and promotes the area’s rich outstanding built environment and AWARDS PRESENTATION heritage & cultural life through a heritage stimulating programme of activities. Promote the economic vitality of the Guildhall, Salisbury SP1 1JH A Warm Welcome to our Salisbury falls under two authorities, region Application forms will be in the December New Members created in 2009, Salisbury City Council magazine and Wiltshire Council. We are able to Our aims: We are delighted to welcome the contribute effectively in many areas and To celebrate & commemorate the following to the Society: th are represented on several groups area’s rich heritage & cultural life Thursday 8 March including the Salisbury Conservation Arundells, David and Heather Balston, To enhance & protect the built THE QUAKERS IN SALISBURY Advisory Panel. We also have a good Tim and Cathy Brown, Bruce and Jane environment & landscape setting of working relationship with Wiltshire by Rosalind Johnson the area Court, Ed Esdon, Shirley Evans, Oliver Council, Salisbury City Council and 6.30 pm Methodist Church, St Edmund’s Gale, Rory and Mira Guinness, Phil Campaign to Protect Rural England. As a To encourage & promote high stan - Church Street, Salisbury SP1 1EF Harding, Graham and Christine Jagger, dards of design, management & non-political organisation, the Society Free to members: Non members £2.50 Brian Munday, Patricia Phillips, John maintenance tries to maintain an independent stance and Val Potter, Dan Roycroft, Barrie on all matters. To provide a stimulating programme Cover illustration: The Faulston Dovecote , and Cary Sinclair-Kemp, Stephen Sykes of activities for our members. Through a series of awards, talks, forums, Bishopstone (p.2). and Josephine Ings, Peter and Patricia open meetings, visits and our website we van Os, Denis and Barbara Watson, We welcome new members of all ages Photos in this issue: James Woods, Richard promote and provide information on the and backgrounds. Jamie Wright, Jillian Wright. architecture, history and geography of the Deane area. 1 EDITORIAL CHAIRMAN’S REPORT Drawn from AGM Address to members This issue of the magazine has been project. Page 24 has an explanation of produced on the same basis as the two why there’s still an element of uncertainty I hope all are enjoying the summer and revised version of a new Constitution will previous ones, with an editorial co- about the topic. welcome to you all and thank you for be circulated for comment and ultimately ordinator rather than an editor outright. attending on such a warm summer’s be proposed for adoption formally at next The June issue contained the good news One of several new members who joined evening with many other distractions! year’s AGM. that an editor had finally been found, in as a result of Civic Day is Oliver Gale, who at 14 can reliably be described as the the person of Society member John Elliott, Our thoughts are now very much with the It has been another busy year with Society’s youngest member, probably by but unfortunately John has had to stand families of those affected by the Grenfell various talks and lectures, activities, and the proverbial country mile. We’re down from taking on the role for the Tower disaster earlier today in North West involvement with various outside groups. delighted that Oliver has given his own September issue for health reasons. So London and I am sure we would all wish The Development Committee has perspective on one aspect of the current the previous pattern has been reverted to, to remember them in our prayers. continued to engage with various search for further housing sites, which with the significant difference that rather promoters of new developments such as appears alongside Elaine Milton’s account than Salisbury Printing taking on the I will keep my report brief and enable us the Quantum Group who are developing of that whole process on page 5. layout and graphic work, this has been to pass through the formal business and the Old Manor Hospital site, and recently done by member Hugh Synge. Hugh has then you can relax and enjoy Richard The cover photograph shows Faulston McCarthy & Stone who propose to build experience of producing small magazines Deane’s talk on the ‘History of the Civic Dovecote at Bishopstone, one of the retirement and assisted living apartments in the past, and kindly stepped into the Society Awards Scheme’. many buildings which have won awards in Castle Street and Endless Street. breach when John had to withdraw. or commendations from the Society’s So much happens during 12 months that Both organisations have presented their awards scheme since its inception in As usual, the material within is a mix of this address is only a very small reference ideas and architecture to the 1993. Its use here reflects the topic for looking ahead to future events, reviewing to some of the many activities of the Development Committee, and took away this year’s AGM talk, as described by Judy past ones, updates on planning cases, Society, but first I must mention that the feedback suggestions on how they might Howles on page 10. A medley of other and the odd piece which steps back a bit proposed adoption of the new improve on their initial concepts. Some winning buildings appears on the centre from the here and now. Into that category Constitution for the Civic Society will not comments have been taken on board, page spread. Stone boxes in the falls my own contribution on the multi- formally take place tonight, even though it particularly with regard to McCarthy & dovecote’s internal walls attest to the faceted pronunciation possibilities of the is shown on the agenda. Following recent Stone’s first design approach, though on accuracy of that description for it, but name ‘Caen’, only loosely tied to any consultations with the Charity the Old Manor Hospital site the Society some external features, in particular the definition of the Society’s remit. In more Commission it would appear that some still has major reservations. orthodox terrain, Civic Day on June 17th blocked doorway, suggest some more further changes are required to our new was a major event from the Society’s complicated history. The listings draft Constitution and it would not be It is sad these days that most Planning perspective, and it is of course covered description (it’s Grade II*) says ‘according possible to make those changes, circulate Applications are determined with only here. The effort that went into it was to local legend and John Aubrey there the new version and have suitable notice limited attention to architectural detailing considerable, but amply rewarded by were once four such towers around the period in advance of the AGM. and materials, and it is good that our Civic something which all who experienced it moated Faulston House, but this has not Society does, to some extent, have its In essence, the Charity Commission feel seem to have regarded as a definite been substantiated’. A challenge for some voice listened to, and that we take a keen that our existing Objects are more in line success, with a very positive feel inside historian or archaeologist in our ranks, interest in making observations. with the charitable aims of the Society the Guildhall while it was on. Some perhaps? There may not be that many of and therefore we shall probably retain On that topic, but not exclusively down to excellent posters were produced, some at the latter (but see the welcome to new them as existing with some minor us in the Civic Society, Wiltshire Council least of which will be used again for the members box...).
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