DOCSLIB.ORG

YALE in LONDON – SUMMER 2013 British Studies 189 Churches: Christopher Wren to Basil Spence

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
YALE in LONDON – SUMMER 2013 British Studies 189 Churches: Christopher Wren to Basil Spence YALE IN LONDON – SUMMER 2013 British Studies 189 Churches: Christopher Wren to Basil Spence THE CHURCHES OF LONDON: ARCHITECTURAL IMAGINATION AND ECCLESIASTICAL FORM Karla Britton Yale School of Architecture Email: [email protected] Class Time: Tuesday, Thursday 10-12:15 or as scheduled, Paul Mellon Center, or in situ Office Hours: By Appointment Yale-in-London Program, June 10-July 19, 2013 Course Description The historical trajectories of British architecture may be seen as inseparable from the evolution of London’s churches. From the grand visions of Wren through the surprising forms of Hawksmoor, Gibbs, Soane, Lutyens, Scott, Nash, and others, the ingenuity of these buildings, combined with their responsiveness to their urban environment, continue to intrigue architects today. Examining the ecclesiastical architecture of London beginning with Christopher Wren, this course critically addresses how prominent British architects sought to communicate the mythical and transcendent through structure and material, while also taking into account the nature of the site, a vision of the concept of the city, the church building’s relationship to social reform, ethics, and aesthetics. The course also examines how church architecture shaped British architectural thought in the work of historians such as Pevsner, Summerson, Rykwert, and Banham. The class will include numerous visits in situ in London, as well as trips to Canterbury, Liverpool, and Coventry. Taking full advantage of the sites of London, this seminar will address the significance of London churches for recent architects, urbanists, and scholars. ______________________________________________________________________________________ CLASS REQUIREMENTS Deliverables: Weekly reflection papers on the material covered in class and site visits. Full participation and discussion is required in classroom and on field trips. Due: at mid-term, a short 3-5 page paper with annotated bibliography and 10 annotated images on a specific church building and its relationship to its site. Due: at course end, a ten-page research paper with original source material, bibliography and 20 annotated images. The topic will be decided in discussion with the instructor. COURSE READINGS The PMC Library has some important primary references. In addition, I would ask that you purchase three books: Margaret Whinney, Wren (Thames & Hudson, 1971) Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Pevsner, London: The City Churches (Penguin Books, 1998) John Summerson, Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830 (Yale, 1989) Other readings will be posted on the V2 classes server. Other helpful resources for this class include: Christopher Hibbert, London’s Churches (Queen Anne Press, London, 1988) Elizabeth and Wayland Young, London’s Churches (Grafton Books, 1986) Gerald Cobb, London City Churches (Batsford Ltd., London, revised edition, 1989) Terry Friedman, The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain (PMC and Yale, 2011) Joseph Rykwert, Church Building (Hawthorne Books, 1966) Giles Worsley, Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition (PMC and Yale, 2007) Louise Campbell, Coventry Cathedral: Art and Architecture in Post-War Britain (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996) Vaughan Hart, Nicholas Hawksmoor: Rebuilding Ancient Wonders (PMC and Yale, 2002) Steen Eiler Rasmussen, London: The Unique City (MIT Press, revised edition, 1982) June 11 The View from St Paul’s: The Cathedral in the City --the cathedral and the social and cultural framework of the city --St. Paul’s impact on the urban planning of London --the cathedral’s impact on urban experience and sensory responses to the city Field Trip: St. Paul’s Cathedral Readings: Dana Arnold, “The View from St. Paul’s,” in Re-presenting the Metropolis: Architecture, Urban Experience and Social Life in London 1900-1840 (Aldershot, UK, 2000), pp. 1-25. Margaret Whinney, “The Planning of St. Paul’s” and “The Building of St. Paul’s,” in Wren, pp. 81-133. June 13 Reading the City and its Buildings (Seminar Room) Readings: Lewis Mumford, “Introduction” The Culture of Cities (London, 1938), pp. 3-12 Roland Barthes, “The Semiotics of the City” in Architecture Culture, 1945-68, ed. by Joan Ockman (New York, 1993), pp. 412-418. Steen Eiler Rasmussen, “Chapter 1: Basic Observations” in Experiencing Architecture (Cambridge, MA, 1959), pp. 9-35. Joseph Rykwert, “Introduction,” Church Building (New York, 1966), pp. 7-21. Recommended: Steen Eiler Rasmussen, “Introduction” and “Chapter 1,” London: The Unique City (Cambridge, MA, 1934), pp. 9-23. Nikolaus Pevsner and Simon Bradley, “Introduction,” London: The City Churches (London, 1998), pp. 15- 47. June 18 The Mind of Christopher Wren (1632-1723): The City and its Churches --The Great Fire as the “watershed” in 17thc London: Christopher Wren’s plan; plans by John Evelyn, Richard Newcourt, Robert Hooke --The extent and variety of Wren’s works: variety, experimentation and evolution of the centrally planned church: St. Bride’s Fleet Street (1671-78); St. Mary-Le-Bow (1680); St. James’s Picadilly (1676) --Exterior architecture: towers and spires --Wren’s Successors: James Gibbs (1682-1754): St. Martin’s in the Fields (1721-26); Wren’s St. Clement Danes (1682) with steeple by Gibbs (1719); Thomas Archer’s St. Paul’s Deptford (1712-30) --Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo’s Wren’s City Churches (1883) --The legacy of Wren and contemporary London Class Visit: 10:00-12:15 Christ Church, Spitalfields; 17:45 St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside Readings: Terry Friedman, “Churchscapes,” The Eighteenth Century Church in Britain (New Haven, 2011), pp. 3-21. Christopher Hibbert, “The Churches of Christopher Wren,” London’s Churches (London, 1988), pp. 49-79. Margaret Whinney, “The City’s Churches,” Wren, pp. 45-71. June 19 Class Visit to Westminster Abbey (with BRST 188) June 20 A Sign of Something New: Hawksmoor’s Churches Field Trip: 10:00-12:15 Hawksmoor’s St. Mary Woolnoth (1716-27) and Wren’s St. Stephens Wolbrook (1679), City of London --Nicholas Hawksmoor: “The Tower, The Temple, and the Tomb” --Hawksmoor’s six great London churches and London’s skyline --Comparison of Wren with Hawksmoor --Royal Academy of Arts 2012 Exhibition, “Nicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination” in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the architect --Hawksmoor and the literary imagination: Hogarth, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Ackroyd; Iain Sinclair’s Lud Heat (1975) psychogeographical theory and “Nicholas Hawksmoor, the Churches” Readings: John Summerson, “English Baroque: Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh, Archer” in Architecture in Britain, 1530- 1830, (New York, reprinted 1989), pp. 271-295. Vaughan Hart, “’A Steeple in the forme of a pillar’: The Memorial Towers on the London Churches” and “‘The better they will suit our . Situation’: The Ornamentation of the London Churches,” in Nicholas Hawksmoor (New Haven, 2002), pp. 131-162 and 167-187. June 21 The Soane Museum Field Trip: Sir John Soane’s Museum (with special attention to “spirituality” and domestic space, e.g. the Monk’s Parlour and Monk’s Cell) Short Paper is Due. June 25 The Classical Impulse: Jones, Dance and Soane Field Trip: Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Chapel --Inigo Jones, The Queen’s Chapel (1627); St. Paul’s Covent Garden (1633); Chapel at Lincoln’s Inn (1623) --George Dance the Younger, All Hallows London Wall (1767) --Sir John Soane, Holy Trinity, Marylebone (1824-28) Reading: Geoffrey Scott, The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste, Introduction (New York, 1969), pp. 14-23. Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey, John Soane: The Making of an Architect, Introduction and Conclusion (Chicago, 1982), pp. xxi-xxiv and 317-323. John Summerson, Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830, “Inigo Jones and His Times (1610-60),” Chapters 7 and 8 (London, 1953), pp. 113-141. Reference: Sir John Soane, The Royal Academy Lectures, ed. by David Watkin (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000). June 27 The Shape of English Christianity: from Monastic Origins to Established Church Day Trip: ST AUGUSTINE’S ABBEY; THE CATHEDRAL OF CANTERBURY --The ancient monastic origins and distinctive nature of English Christianity: Ecclesia anglicana and the “non-conformists” --The tradition of pilgrimage --The wounds of religious conflict --Gothic architecture and the religious imagination Readings: Jonathan Keates and Angelo Hornak, Canterbury Cathedral, “The Building of the Cathedral to 1200,” “The Cathedral Priory of Christ Church,” “Saint Thomas Becket” (London, 1994), pp. 8-45. English Heritage, St. Augustine’s Abbey (1997), pp. 1-15. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Chapters 23-33 (731: Penguin edition, 1955), pp. 66- 92. Terry Friedman, “ Gothic in Transition” and “A New Spirit: ‘Truest Gothic Taste’”, in The 18th Century Church in Britain, pp. 212-263. References: Paul Crossley, “Medieval Architecture and Meaning: The Limits of Iconography” in The Burlington Magazine Vol. 130, no. 1019 (Feb. 1988) pp. 116-121. Michael Camille, “In the Margins of the Monastery” Image on the Edge (Reaktion Books, 1992) pp. 56-77. July 2 Taming the Crowd: Nash and the Romantic Classicism of Regency London --John Nash, All Souls, Langham Place (1824) --Regency Park, London --Guest Lecture: Geoffrey Tyack, Director of Stanford-in-Oxford program [to be arranged] Reading: Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, “Great Britain” (New Haven, 1958), pp. 97-120. Christopher Hibbert, “Memorials of the Regency,” in London: The Biography of a City (London, 1969), pp. 125-142. John Summerson, “John Nash,” in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects
Load more

Recommended publications
  • St Clement Danes Church of England Primary School Drury Lane London WC2B 5SU Tel: 020 7641 6586 - Fax: 020 7641 6556
    St Clement Danes Church of England Primary School Drury Lane London WC2B 5SU Tel: 020 7641 6586 - Fax: 020 7641 6556 ADMISSIONS POLICY SCHOOL YEAR 2010/11 St Clement Danes CE Primary School is a Christian School and the Staff and Governors seek to provide a sound and full education within a caring Christian atmosphere. There is a real commitment to every child, regardless of physical or academic ability, culture, background or religion. We aim to run a school where everyone feels valued and where there is a feeling of community and a clear sense of purpose that embraces, children, staff, parents and carers, governors and other colleagues and friends in the local community. There are high expectations of everyone, as set out in the Aims of the School and the Home-School Partnership Agreement. Governors hope that parents who chose this school for their child do so knowing that it is a Church of England school with a distinctive Christian ethos. Governors therefore expect parents to give their full support to the ethos of the school. Governors hope that all children will attend the acts of collective worship and will take part in the religious education curriculum offered by the schools. This does not remove the right that parents have to request that their children be withdrawn from these activities. Reception Class - Governors will admit 30 children per year. The closing date for applications is 1 March 2010. Offer letters will be sent out to Parents on 10 May 2010 for the September 2010 and January 2011 intakes. Parents must accept the offer by 24 May 2010.
    [Show full text]
  • LTN Winter 2021 Newsletter
    THE LUTYENS TRUST To protect and promote the spirit and substance of the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens O.M. NEWSLETTER WINTER 2021 A REVIEW OF NEW BOOK ARTS & CRAFTS CHURCHES BY ALEC HAMILTON By Ashley Courtney It’s hard to believe this is the first book devoted to Arts and Crafts churches in the UK, but then perhaps a definition of these isn’t easy, making them hard to categorise? Alec Hamilton’s book, published by Lund Humphries – whose cover features a glorious image of St Andrew’s Church in Sunderland, of 1905 to 1907, designed by Albert Randall Wells and Edward Schroeder Prior – is split into two parts. The first, comprising an introduction and three chapters, attempts a definition, placing this genre in its architectural, social and religious contexts, circa 1900. The second, larger section divides the UK into 14 regions, and shows the best examples in each one; it also includes useful vignettes on artists and architects of importance. For the author, there is no hard- and-fast definition of an Arts and Crafts church, but he makes several attempts, including one that states: “It has to be built in or after 1884, the founding date of the Art Workers’ Guild”. He does get into a bit of a pickle, however, but bear with it as there is much to learn. For example, I did not know about the splintering of established religion, the Church of England, into a multitude of Nonconformist explorations. Added to that were the social missions whose goal was to improve the lot of the impoverished; here social space and church overlapped and adherents of the missions, such as CR Ashbee, taught Arts and Crafts skills.
    [Show full text]
  • St Marylebone Parish Church Records of Burials in the Crypt 1817-1853
    Record of Bodies Interred in the Crypt of St Marylebone Parish Church 1817-1853 This list of 863 names has been collated from the merger of two paper documents held in the parish office of St Marylebone Church in July 2011. The large vaulted crypt beneath St Marylebone Church was used as place of burial from 1817, the year the church was consecrated, until it was full in 1853, when the entrance to the crypt was bricked up. The first, most comprehensive document is a handwritten list of names, addresses, date of interment, ages and vault numbers, thought to be written in the latter half of the 20th century. This was copied from an earlier, original document, which is now held by London Metropolitan Archives and copies on microfilm at London Metropolitan and Westminster Archives. The second document is a typed list from undertakers Farebrother Funeral Services who removed the coffins from the crypt in 1980 and took them for reburial at Brookwood cemetery, Woking in Surrey. This list provides information taken from details on the coffin and states the name, date of death and age. Many of the coffins were unidentifiable and marked “unknown”. On others the date of death was illegible and only the year has been recorded. Brookwood cemetery records indicate that the reburials took place on 22nd October 1982. There is now a memorial stone to mark the area. Whilst merging the documents as much information as possible from both lists has been recorded. Additional information from the Farebrother Funeral Service lists, not on the original list, including date of death has been recorded in italics under date of interment.
    [Show full text]
  • Sundials, Solar Rays, and St Paul's Cathedral
    Extract from: Babylonian London, Nimrod, and the Secret War Against God by Jeremy James, 2014. Sundials, Solar Rays, and St Paul's Cathedral Since London is a Solar City – with St Paul's Cathedral representing the "sun" – we should expect to find evidence of solar rays , the symbolic use of Asherim to depict the radiant, life-sustaining power of the sun. Such a feature would seem to be required by the Babylonian worldview, where Asherim are conceived as conduits of hidden power, visible portals through which the gods radiate their "beneficent" energies into the universe. The spires and towers of 46 churches are aligned with the center of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, creating 23 "solar rays". I was already familiar with this idea from my research into the monuments of Dublin, where church steeples and other Asherim are aligned in radial fashion around the "sun," the huge modern obelisk known as the Millennium Spire. As it happens, a total of 23 "solar rays" pass through the center of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, based on the alignment of churches alone . Thus, in the diagram above, two churches sit on each line. If other types of Asherim are included – such as obelisks, monoliths, columns and cemetery chapels – the number is substantially greater. [The 46 churches in question are listed in the table below .] 1 www.zephaniah.eu The churches comprising the 23 "rays" emanating from St Paul's Cathedral 1 St Stephen's, Westbourne Park St Paul's Cathedral St Michael's Cornhill 2 All Souls Langham Place St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Shadwell
    [Show full text]
  • Hawksmoor's Churches: Myth and Architecture in the Works of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd
    Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture．Vol 5.2．June 2012．1-23. Hawksmoor's Churches: Myth and Architecture in the Works of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd Eva Yin-I Chen ABSTRACT The works of contemporary British writers Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd demonstrate an intense preoccupation with the spatial symbols and ruins of London’s East End, which to them stand not just for the broken pieces of a vanishing past but also as symptoms of an underlying force of mythological and cultural significance, a force that collapses contemporary ideology and resists consecutive attempts at control and order. Of these, the Hawksmoor churches built by the architect Nickolas Hawksmoor after the 1666 London fire, some already demolished and others standing dark and brooding with looming spires and shadowy recesses, take on a particular preeminence. Both writers view the churches as forming an invisible geometry of lines of power in the cartography of the city, calling forth occult energies that point to the deeper, though half-erased and repressed truth of London. Sinclair’s early poetry collection Lud Heat first toys with this idea, and Ackroyd’s bestselling novel Hawksmoor popularizes it and enables it to reach a wider public. This paper investigates the spatial and mythological symbolism of the Hawksmoor churches as reflected in the works of the two writers, arguing that this recurrent spatial motif holds the key to understanding an important strand of contemporary British literature where architecture, textuality and London’s haunting past loom
    [Show full text]
  • Memorials Families of the Surname of Arche
    " d. e rnam : S u e 3m a . I NTROD T U C I ON . T H E u surna m e throu h out notices of any partic lar , scattered g the records of past centuries , although unassociated with any prominent historical events , and seldom occurring, save in the pages of the County historian , may yet acquire , by their union in a collective form , a certain amount of interest, as illustrating the fortunes of a member of the common family . - m h The Anglo Norman Surna e Archer, was not uncommon in the seventeent . i l century Several fam lies of loca distinction , bore it in various parts of England , U m bersla de i and amongst them , the principal was that of , in Warwickshire , a fam ly much more widely spread, than might be supposed , and the only one , of any note , Coo ersa le — which , unlike those of p , Lizard , Stoke Archer and Dover, is certainly , not w extinct , although in the person of Andre , second and last Lord Archer , the senior male line expired , in the year The following are “ arms assigned to various families of the name — l l 3 i . Archer, Cornwal sable, a chevron between broad arrows argent (the L zard) — Tr l tw . 3 . 2 . k e a s e . be Archer, , Cornwall sab a chev . engr pheons or — 3 . n betw . 2 Archer, Essex azure , a garb erect or laurel branches , tied by a ribbo 3 be tw. 8 t wo in base on a chief emb . arg . arrows, points down , ermine spots , 1 828.
    [Show full text]
  • Wren and the English Baroque
    What is English Baroque? • An architectural style promoted by Christopher Wren (1632-1723) that developed between the Great Fire (1666) and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713). It is associated with the new freedom of the Restoration following the Cromwell’s puritan restrictions and the Great Fire of London provided a blank canvas for architects. In France the repeal of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 revived religious conflict and caused many French Huguenot craftsmen to move to England. • In total Wren built 52 churches in London of which his most famous is St Paul’s Cathedral (1675-1711). Wren met Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) in Paris in August 1665 and Wren’s later designs tempered the exuberant articulation of Bernini’s and Francesco Borromini’s (1599-1667) architecture in Italy with the sober, strict classical architecture of Inigo Jones. • The first truly Baroque English country house was Chatsworth, started in 1687 and designed by William Talman. • The culmination of English Baroque came with Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) and Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736), Castle Howard (1699, flamboyant assemble of restless masses), Blenheim Palace (1705, vast belvederes of massed stone with curious finials), and Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight (now in ruins). Vanburgh’s final work was Seaton Delaval Hall (1718, unique in its structural audacity). Vanburgh was a Restoration playwright and the English Baroque is a theatrical creation. In the early 18th century the English Baroque went out of fashion. It was associated with Toryism, the Continent and Popery by the dominant Protestant Whig aristocracy. The Whig Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, built a Baroque house in the 1720s but criticism resulted in the huge new Palladian building, Wentworth Woodhouse, we see today.
    [Show full text]
  • Etrvscan • Demonstrating the 7
    DEVELOPMENT OF SERIF-LESS TYPE — TIMELINE SSTUVVW XYWUZa aSWbV ZSa cVUdcW ecYX IUfgh, RYiVcU MSgWV, f jcYXSaSWk Image rights and references: fcbZSUVbUlVWkSWVVc, cVbVSmVa f gVUUVc nfUVn: Røùú, Nøû. 11, 1760. ecYX ZSa Italy Fig: XVWUYc fWn ecSVWn GSYmfWWS BfUUSaUf PScfWVaS. TZV IUfgSfW fcbZSUVbUoa 1. (Left) Leonardo Agostini (1686) Le Gemme Antiche Fiurate. Engraving of a ‘Magic Gem’ of serif-less cVjdUfUSYW Zfn bYXV SWbcVfaSWkgh dWnVc fUUfbpVn ecYX FcVWbZ fcbZSUVbUa letterforms. Tav. Fig.52 [83] CARAERI MAGICI in lapis lazuli. © GIA Library Additional Collections (Gemological Institute of America), in the public domain. fWn gSUVcfch bcSUSba Ye UZV fcUa UZcYdkZYdU UZV 1750a. CgfaaSbfg RYXfW Emf. XX 1. (Right) Leonardo Agostini (1593-1669). Portrait aged 63, frontispiece from Le Gemme Antiche Fiurate, 1686. © GIA fcbZSUVbUdcV fa fW SnVfg qfa iVSWk bZfggVWkVn SW efmYdc Ye rUZV GcVVpo Library Additional Collections (Gemological Institute of America), in the public domain. 2. Dempster, Thomas (1579-1625). Coke, Thomas, Earl of qSUZSW qZfU iVbfXV pWYqW fa UZV GcfVbYlRYXfW nVifUV. Leicester, and Bounarroti, Filippo (1723). De Etruria Regali, III Libri VII, nunc primum editi curante Thomas Coke. Opus postumum. Florentiæ: Cajetanus Tartinius. Written in With some disdain he writes: “My Work ‘On the Magnificence of 1616-19. Liber Tertius, Tabulæ Eugubinæ. (viewer pp.693-702). Tabular I of V. © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, digital.onb.ac.at in the public domain. Architecture of the Romans’ has been finished some time since... it consists 3. (Left) Forlivesi, Padre Giovanni Nicola (Giannicola). From the Convent of San Marco in Corneto. The Augustinian of 100 sheets of letterpress in Italian and Latin and of 50 plates, the IN DCCLVI GIAMBAISTA PIRANESI RELEASED monk’s 14 written bulletins to Anton Francesco Gori with observational drawings and decipherment of Etruscan inscriptions at Tarquinia near Corneto, from 11th May to 4th whole on Atlas paper.
    [Show full text]
  • Camberwell Grove Conservation Area Appraisal Part 3
    Camberwell Grove Conservation Area The Character and Appearance of the Area Figure 9 Regency streetscape at Grove Crescent – designated under the London Squares Preservation Act Figure 10 Brick paving and good modern lighting - St. Giles Churchyard Building types 3.1.12 The great majority of buildings in the Conservation Area are residential, particularly in Camberwell Grove and Grove Lane., the predominant type is three and four storey brick or stuccoed terraces of houses, dating from the late 18th/early 19th century and designed on classical principles, In other parts of the area there are two storey brick or stucco villas or pairs from the 19th century. Later, there are many examples of two storey brick houses built with arts and crafts/English revivalist influence, as at Grove Park, for example. 3.1.13 These residential building types provide the basis of the character of the Conservation area. Against their background a few institutional and public buildings are landmarks that stand out in the local context. On Denmark Hill, there is the main frontage of the Maudsley Hospital in early 20th century classical styles using red brick and Portland stone. Giles Gilbert Scott’s 1932 Salvation Army College employs a neo-classical style in dark brown brick. The Mary Datchelor School is in a Queen Anne revival style using red brick and plain tiled roofs, and St. Giles Church is an 1840s Gothic revival design. 3.2 Sub-area 1 - Lower Camberwell Grove St. Giles Church 3.2.1 St. Giles Church is a very important landmark in the Camberwell area, marking the "gateway" to the centre of Camberwell from the Peckham Road.
    [Show full text]
  • November 16.Indd
    KensingtonTHE ISSN 2058-2226 MAGAZINE November 2016 DESIGN AND CREATIVITY IN KENSINGTON Front Cover: The Design Museum in Kensington THE High Street with its listed Parabola roof) Kensington (Image: Lucy Elliott Photography) MAGAZINE This has been an exciting month finding out all about design and creativity in Kensington. As you will see from the articles and the entries in this month’s What’s On pages, Kensington, Chelsea, South Kensington and Notting Hill are all flourishing with innovation. We are especially grateful to Alice Black (Design Museum) and Sue Harris (RBKC) for their time in providing answers to questions that we know residents are asking about the new Design Museum and we look foward to welcoming the Museum to Kensington on 24th November. We hope you will support all those involved in creativity, innovation and design; whether that Lucy Elliott, ditorE be by attending fairs/exhibitions or supporting (Hair by Toby from Hairspace at Annie Russell) incubating businesses. Lucy CONTENTS The History of the Design Museum 4 Questions & Answers on The Design Museum 6 Culture and Innovation in Kensington 8 Creative Pruning 10 Kensington News 12-15 Creativity and how it is interpreted in the modern world 18 Get Well Spoon: Halibut with Clam & Mushroom Sauce 19 A Taste of Wine: Austria 20 Kensington Crossword 22 What’s In and around Kensington during November 24-26 Small Box Advertisements 29 Editor & Photography: Lucy M Elliott [email protected] GET IN TOUCH PUBLISHER: The Kensington Magazine Ltd 0203 667 8762 07921 558520 WEBSITE: www.thekensingtonmagazine.com | www.lucyelliottphotography.com Aletta Richie, Victoria O Neil, Maria Perry, Charles Yorke, Dave Saunders, Trevor CONTRIBUTORS Langley, Benedict Bull and Sarah Goldsmith Guest Contributors: Alice Black, Sue Harris and David Barrie Read by 34,500 residents and businesses each month.
    [Show full text]
  • Domine Dirige
    Kevin J. Gardner is Associate Professor of English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. A Betjeman scholar, he is the author of Betjeman and the Anglican Imagination (SPCK, 2010). He is also the editor of Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An anthology of his religious verse (Continuum, 2005) and Poems in the Porch: The radio poems of John Betjeman (Continuum, 2008). In addition to his work on Betjeman, he has published on a wide variety of literary figures over the years, and has a particular interest in twentieth-century writers who address issues of faith and religion. BETJEMAN ON FAITH An anthology of his religious prose Edited by Kevin J. Gardner First published in Great Britain in 2011 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 36 Causton Street London SW1P 4ST www.spckpublishing.co.uk Preface copyright © Kevin J. Gardner 2011 All other chapters copyright © the Estate of Sir John Betjeman 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. SPCK does not necessarily endorse the individual views contained in its publications. Scripture quotations are taken from the Authorized Version of the Bible (The King James Bible), the rights in which are vested in the Crown, and are reproduced by permission of the Crown’s Patentee, Cambridge University Press. Extracts from The Book of Common Prayer, the rights in which are vested in the Crown, are reproduced by permission of the Crown’s Patentee, Cambridge University Press.
    [Show full text]
  • Multidisciplinary Investigations of the Diets of Two Post-Medieval Populations from London Using Stable Isotopes and Microdebris Analysis
    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2019) 11:6161–6181 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00910-8 ORIGINAL PAPER Multidisciplinary investigations of the diets of two post-medieval populations from London using stable isotopes and microdebris analysis Madeleine Bleasdale1,2 & Paola Ponce3 & Anita Radini2 & Andrew S. Wilson4 & Sean Doherty2,5 & Patrick Daley4 & Chloe Brown2 & Luke Spindler2,6 & Lucy Sibun7 & Camilla Speller2,8 & Michelle M. Alexander2 Received: 11 April 2019 /Accepted: 2 August 2019 /Published online: 16 August 2019 # The Author(s) 2019 Abstract This paper presents the first multi-tissue study of diet in post-medieval London using both the stable light isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen and analysis of microdebris in dental calculus. Dietary intake was explored over short and long timescales. Bulk bone collagen was analysed from humans from the Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy (QCS) (n = 66) and the St Barnabas/St Mary Abbots (SB) (n = 25). Incremental dentine analysis was performed on the second molar of individual QCS1123 to explore childhood dietary intake. Bulk hair samples (n = 4) were sampled from adults from QCS, and dental calculus was analysed from four other individuals using microscopy. In addition, bone collagen from a total of 46 animals from QCS (n = 11) and the additional site of Prescot Street (n = 35) was analysed, providing the first animal dietary baseline for post-medieval London. Overall, isotopic results suggest a largely C3-based terrestrial diet for both populations, with the exception of QCS1123 who exhibited values consistent with the consumption of C4 food sources throughout childhood and adulthood. The differences 15 exhibited in δ Ncoll across both populations likely reflect variations in diet due to social class and occupation, with individuals from SB likely representing wealthier individuals consuming larger quantities of animal and marine fish protein.
    [Show full text]