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A Positive Impression A review of WMFB’s exhibition ‘Giving our Past a Future’ at Sir ’s Museum 1 Alex Bourne and Message from jonathan foyle, in this issue... Soane Museum Jacky Ingham with Candlelit fundraiser WMFB Ambassador, Chief executive Kevin McCloud 2 Liz Irvine and A wonderful evening was Karine Mayer 3 Kevin McCloud with Spring 2013 features had by all at the pre-advent CEO Jonathan Foyle ‘I call architecture frozen music’, said Goethe. It’s an intriguing Britain Ltd Secret Histories 2 Candlelit Fundraiser at Sir 4 Oliver Brind with 70 Cowcross Street, idea. We can all appreciate music almost from birth, for its Doreen Browne London EC1M 6EJ John Soane’s Museum on 5 Pirjo and Robert Telephone: +44 (0)20 7251 8142 innate mathematical structures, its proportion, depth and even Fax: +44 (0)20 7490 4795 Tuesday 27th November. Gardiner with Email: [email protected] colour. Music is the finest expression of our aural environment, Andrew Fane Website: www.wmf.org.uk Our guests were treated to 6 Guests enjoy a Charity number: 1126578 transcending mere noise often with a rich emotional resonance. Registered company number: 6730565 a private tour of WMFB’s spirited speech But beyond listening to it passively we can also get practically from Kevin McCloud Staff exhibition ‘Giving our Past a 1 2 involved with it, and understanding and playing music brings Melissa Marshall Project Manager Future’ and later explored Ewa Manias Finance Director us to another level: it allows us to unpack and manipulate one of Sarah Meaker Outreach Manager this remarkable museum by Jules Osborn Development Manager life’s great mysteries with profound rewards. candlelight. WMF Britain’s Mr James Hervey-Bathurst Chairman Architecture can similarly be appreciated at a basic level- it’s Bricks and mortar can’t tell The Norwich Chairman Emeritus all a building’s secrets, as our Dr Jonathan Foyle Chief Executive new ambassador, broadcaster, our human habitat, after all- but understanding its proportions, exhibition revealed Kevin McCloud attended and Trustees its form and volumes, myriad meanings and materials illumi- An Ancient Melting-Pot 6 warmly welcomed our guests. Dr Lois de Menil nates the everyday and enhances our discernment, teaching us Dame Vivien Duffield The evening concluded with Dr Peter Frankopan how better to appreciate it. Then we can see that architecture is Dr Christopher Tadgell the drawing of the 2012 Mrs Catrin Treadwell the finest expression of our built environment- and how it tran- Mr Pierre Valentin Winter Raffle. scends mere building. Monumentum is generously supported Thank you to those who by The Paul Mellon Estate Discernment is a rarefied skill that takes work. It may even

supported the evening or took Cultureshock Media be an unpopular word as we live in a world of fast and loud part in the raffle. Many con- Art Direction & Production soundbites, one that is increasingly impatient of contemplation. gratulations to those who won w w w.cultureshockmedia.co.uk Over seventy years ago T.S. Eliot asked a question for the IT age… prizes and many thanks to ‘Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom Preserving the remarkably diverse those who donated items. we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost cultural past of coastal Tanzania in information?’ 3 But discernment- a search for wisdom - isn’t elitism. It’s the regulars opposite. Discernment enables us to appreciate and thereby Our European counterparts become humble in acknowledgement of what is truly valuable, visit Chatsworth 8 not for its cost but its contribution to humanity. Getting involved and learning more elevates us from consumers of property to engaged custodians of the historic environment: discernment Cover image: puts fire in your belly to care. The opposite state is the ignorance At Stowe latex moulds were used to that too often to destruction. And every time that happens, cast the replica rosettes that were then fixed to the ceiling in the Large a little piece of frozen music is lost to us all. Library before they were gilded in-situ. This group of objects was W featured in WMFB’s exhibition ‘Giving our Past a Future’. News 10

Photo credits: ‘Concrete baroque’ shelter 4 5 Inside cover under threat © Paul Carr Page 1 Events 12 Bottom © WMF/Richard Holttum Study Days and lectures 2013 Pages 2-3 © WMF/Richard Holttum Pages 4-5 All © WMF/Richard Holttum apart from middle left © Paul Carr Page 9 © Andy Marshall Page 10 Watch Day © Paul Carr Page 11 © Susan Buckham Page 12 Bottom left © Andy Marshall

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6 1 EVENTS r EVIE ‘The Great Library at Stowe House’ Pencil, pen and watercolour by ‘E.S.’ c. 1809 (The Governors of , on loan to The Stowe House Preservation Trust). Soane exhibition review Secret histories

To wander through the spaces of an historical building is not always enough.An exhibition created by WMFB at Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, uncovered the hidden narratives surrounding some of our architectural gems, as letters, artworks and precious objects illuminate the past in a way nothing else can.

belowNineteen fragments of Theabove Soane left Hours (Master Coventry’s medieval of the Soane Hours and glass were featured another artist) made in (Coventry Cathedral). Ghent or Bruges after 1512 (Sir John Soane’s Museum).

Theabove display, as laid out in the newly-refurbished exhibition room.

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3 Anright angel composed of Attop Stowe latex moulds were Thisbelow original drawing by fragments of Coventry’s used to cast the replica Hawksmoor shows the south side medieval stained glass plaster paterae that were of St George’s, dominated, in the 1990s shows the then fixed to the library but not overwhelmed by the richness and potential ceiling and gilded. grand hexastyle Corinthian of the collection . (City of London, London (Coventry Cathedral) Metropolitan Archives)

Exhibitions serve a variety of purposes. Some forge a whole room. Soane designed Stowe’s Gothic Library, academic propositions, others revise artistic repu- and possibly the Egyptian Hall, and drawings of both tations, or gather scattered objects to great effect. are shown in this exhibition. Giving our Past a Future which opened on 26 October at Sometimes the most innocuous items are the Sir John Soane’s Museum does none of these precisely, most powerful. One favourite is the letter written but explains who we are as a global organization by the first of and Chandos to Sir whilst offering into the lives of the sites we John Soane with the request to borrow £5,000. That have worked at in the UK. Soane’s collection resultantly contains gems and fine The buildings themselves show the main results volumes once at Stowe illustrates the intricacy and of our interventions, and many thousands of people interrelatedness of our history. As well as enjoying enjoy them for the sheer delight of their aesthetic, it, we have much to learn from it. And that’s why it existential qualities. But any walk amongst the needs to be looked after. sunlit of Stowe, the damask-lined halls of Strawberry Hill, or the Gothic ruins of St Michael’s ‘Craft and traditional materials are always expensive, but Coventry will be in the absence of some details that quality is the only course, and our £10 million challenge to help to explain their experience and purpose with preserve and present Stowe is exceptional value. This, of much greater clarity than impressions allow. It is very often from highlighting these disparate course, is the benchmark for all our work.’ drawings, paintings, and objects that an overlooked history can begin to be constructed. Places need WMF Britain’s founding Chairman, John Julius Norwich a narrative that makes the past come alive in the present, captivating the support necessary to make them valued into the future. Sir John Soane’s Museum, the fossilized artifact- lined house and studio of the great Regency architect (1753-1837) is an apt venue for World Monuments Fund for many reasons, not least because Soane himself Have you contributed to several of the sites we have helped considered to preserve. Those featured are five in all: Coventry leaving a gift Cathedral (Watch listed 2012) and its cleaned and to WMFB in repaired fifteenth-century stained glass; the laser survey of Hampton Court’s medallions your will? moulded c.1520 by Giovanni da Maiano; the reinvig- orated St George’s Bloomsbury (Watch listed 2002); Help support WMFB’s continued the restoration of Strawberry Hill (Watch listed public outreach work by 2004). Finally, the refurbished Stowe House, home to remembering us in your will. the Temple-Grenville family who after 1822 became of Buckingham and Chandos, which is given We are completely reliant Joseph Nollekens’ drawing on donations and receive no of Walpole’s prized first- Guestsmiddle enjoy some of the century ‘Boccapadugli’ eagle cleaned and conserved statutory funding. Your support (Sir John Soane’s Museum). stained glass fragments, ensures that we are able to Walpole’s each a work of art. collections of continue our good work. miniatures and trinket-boxes Cameosright bought from the were much admired and To receive more information in the Tribune at Chandos by Sir John about leaving a gift in your will Strawberry Hill Soane: some antique, House (The Trustees some modern, some please contact our Development of the Waldegrave outright fakes (Sir John Manager on Tel: +44 (0)20 7251 Chattels Trust). Soane’s Museum). 8142 or email: [email protected]. secret histories Monumentum spring 2013

4 5 international The Great Mosque at Kilwa, founded in the 14th century, a civilisation that was quintessentially coastal and World Heritage Site in 2000, reflects the varied was for over 200 years the distinctly African. Kilwa’s power reached its height origins of the people who settled here, combining largest and most renowned in sub-Saharan Africa. in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Great Mosque at influences from Arabia, the Gulf and Western India Kilwa, which was founded in the 14th century, was with European and traditional Swahili architecture. for over 200 years the largest and most renowned in The economy was based chiefly on the export of sub-Saharan Africa. In 1333 the Sultan completed a and cloves, but it also became the fulcrum of palace on a hill overlooking Kilwa, which has been a more infamous trade in slaves. The slave market an ancient melting-pot described as unrivalled in East Africa for its architec- in Zanzibar, which was the last public slave market tural sophistication and splendour. In 1498 the Portu- in East Africa was finally closed on the orders of the guese explorer Vasco da Gama moored in the harbour Sultan in 1873. The Anglican community built a at Kilwa, and within a short period of time superior cathedral at the site, and the alter marks the exact Portuguese fire power had eclipsed Swahili authority location of the whipping post at the centre of the along the coast. In 1505 the Portuguese completed former market. a fortress overlooking Kilwa harbour. The Swahili World Monuments Fund first became involved never regained their former power, but the standing at Kilwa Kisiwani in 2007, after the site was placed ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara bear tes- on the WMF Watch List of endangered heritage. In timony to a sophisticated and rich culture, and were 2011, WMF was awarded a major grant by the US inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1981. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation to un- Portuguese military may have dominated the dertake a comprehensive preservation program at coast of East Africa for over 200 years, but in the Kilwa Kiswani and Songo Mnara. A project is also early 18th century another force began challenging under development for Zanzibar, focused on the their power. Dhows from Oman had traded along Anglican Cathedral, which is seriously threatened Preservationbelow work, the coast for centuries and skirmishes with the by structural collapse, and creating a heritage centre funded by WMF, at the Portuguese were frequent. But in the early 18th to commemorate the abolition of slavery. Through medieval Swahili town of Songo Mnara. The strip of land along the coast of Tanzania, century the Omanis began a more concerted effort these efforts WMF is contributing to preserving the between the sea and the hinterland of Africa, where to eject the ‘infidel’. Kilwa fell to the Omanis in 1721, remarkable built cultural heritage of Tanzania. great rivers flowing from the African Rift Valley followed by the last outpost of Portuguese power, International meet the Indian Ocean and islands hidden amidst Mombasa, in 1730. East Africa became the focus of Council Trip mangrove forests provide safe mooring for dhows, Oman’s maritime economy, so much so that in the has for millennia been a place of meeting and early 19th century the Sultan of Oman moved his exchange. Merchants and seafarers from all corners capital to a port city at its hub; Zanzibar. The city WMFB is planning a trip to of the globe visited this coast to trade in commodities of Zanzibar grew rapidly in the second half of the Tanzania and Zanzibar for brought from the African interior. Settlements 19th century, and came to dominate trade with the Autumn 2013. If you are inter- sprung up around harbours, which in time became interior of the continent, just as Kilwa had done ested in finding out more please cities, and the form of these settlements reflected three centuries earlier. Merchants from all over the contact [email protected]. From Swahili ruins the diverse and disparate origins of their builders. world came to Zanzibar to trade, and the Sultan, as to the Anglican The ancient cities of the coast of Tanzania are a re- the city’s master and gatekeeper, grew fabulously markable fusion of styles and influences, creating an wealthy. Zanzibar Stone Town, which became a cathedral in Zanzibar, architectural heritage that is rich and varied, and WMF is working to entirely unique. preserve a truly Kilwa in the south of Tanzania was once the most unique architectural powerful city-state along the coast. From the 11th history, fueled by century Kilwa grew wealthy from control of the gold Christfar left Church Cathedral, centuries of maritime trade. Gold mined in Great Zimbabwe far off in the Zanzibar, which was built trade along the interior was carried overland and then by dhow to on the site of the last public slave market in Tanzanian coast, as Fatimid Cairo, passing through Kilwa on its route East Africa. Stephen Battle, WMF’s north where the Sultan levied a duty. Kilwa and its Programme Director twin island Songo Mnara are the most complete Theleft Gereza, or Fort, at surviving fragments of the Swahili civilisation. Kilwa Kisiwani, built for Sub-Saharan by the Portuguese in the Africa, reports The Swahili once dominated the coastal strip of 16th century and modified East Africa, fusing Bantu culture with Islam and by the Omani Arabs in the 18th century. influences from across the Indian Ocean, creating

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6 7 visit project news

Preston Bus Station: double-deckers A noble pursuit or rubble/wreckers? No salvation

The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and the remarkable Chatsworth House played host to for ‘cathedral members of WMF Europe in December of buses’?

would probably bump into someone you knew […] there was every reason to break World Monuments Fund Europe held Baroque Cathedral of Buses’, thrilling your journey.’ its annual meeting at Sir John Soane’s and celebratory. We often take for granted Who can ask for more from a public Museum in London on 3 December. that transportation is the essence of the building? Today, Preston Council leader Hosted by WMFE’s President Bertrand modern world- mobility and the expe- Peter Rankin admits that ‘10-12 years of duVignaud, with WMF’s Chairman rience of journeys is a large part of what lack of investment has taken its toll’ with Chris Ohrstrom, President Bonnie makes us who we are. As the greatest the result that it’s a less pleasant a place Burnham and representatives of nations railway stations stand for the technical to be. Decay through willful neglect is a from Poland to Portugal attending, the progress of the nineteenth century and self-fulfilling prophecy. But so is rescue meeting concluded with a view of the ex- remain useful despite former claims of and revitalization self-fulfilling: there’s hibition on WMF Britain’s work in the UK. redundancy and outmodedness calling every reason to take a bold, imaginative The following day, the group enjoyed for their demolition (imagine the loss decision to refurbish it as a useful, a visit to Chatsworth where they were of St Pancras now) so the best twentieth dynamic landmark. welcomed by the Duke and Duchess of century engineering deserves to be looked Jonathan Glancey said of Preston and

Devonshire. The Duke was the recent re- WMF Europe representatives with after as a legacy. similar buildings: ‘The WMF is right to cipient of the first WMF Watch Award for glass are so large and good they Cost 10s. a WMF President Bonnie Burnham at the As I write, the future of a 2012 Watch In the Lancashire Evening Post it was make us look at them anew before the stables of Chatsworth House. his family’s custodianship of the Chats- pannell. There was sweete tapistry hangings site – Preston’s concrete 1960s bus station – voted the citizens’ favourite building, and wrecker’s ball swings their hapless way.’ worth estate. Curator Matthew Hirst with small figures and very much silk, they hangs in the balance. Alan Mercer explained why through his To keep it is to respect the majority view of guided through the state apartments Look’d as ffresh as if new tho’ bought severall Sounds absurd, perhaps. A bus station experience of it in the 1970s: the people of the city. To keep it is to show just as their contents were being boxed yeares-there were no beds up. There was as might seem a bleakly utilitarian structure ‘The designers dispensed with the skill and imagination in leadership. The up for conservation, the lights down and many roomes on the other side wch were not that serves a purpose and no more. arrogance of expense and ornament consequence of demolition is to waste its curtains drawn against the cold. This ffinished, they were just painting ye Ceilings But any building that transcends and instead chose durable products history, art and embedded energy, and all gloom gave a wonderful sense of the and Laying the floores wch are all jnlaid, the practical into the poetic is surely to that although minimalist also provided for an austerity-age replacement that will true character of the vast rooms in their these were the Duke and dutchess’s apartmts be valued. This vast 1969 building by texture, contrast and interest. It was this surely be a weak exercise in cladding, an historic reality in the harsh winters of besides which are a great number of roomes Keith Ingham of BDP Partnership, based utilitarian approach that gave the public ultimate landmark of regret. the 1690s, when Celia Fiennes described and severall offices.’ upon long horizontal tiers of curves, a sense that they owned the building Behind every plea for its salvation is Derbyshire’s trees exploding from frozen She also explained that her arms embraces the sculptural potential of rather than just being allowed to use it. the World Monuments Watch listing and sap. She wrote of the unfinished Chats- were unable to encompass the 14ft high concrete. Concrete was a Roman material It was a warm bright open space and our support- we wish it well. worth in 1697, a year after its architect columns in the despite energetic that gave us the pantheon’s - but by and large a safe and friendly place to Dr Jonathan Foyle Chief Executive, World Monuments Fund Britain 11 December 2012 William Talman was dismissed: attempts to embrace them. This group did here it expresses confidence in the year be. It was not just somewhere to catch a ‘The roomes are all painted very finely not replicate her efforts but left grateful man first reached the moon. Jonathan bus. Whether you only used it a couple Preston Council took 30 minutes to vote for demolition without plans for its replacement. on ye top; all ye windows ye Squares of for the experience. Glancey in the Guardian called it ‘A of times a year, or used it twice a day, you

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8 9 COVENTRy CATHEDRAL PROJECT UPDATE Faces in the glass: Edinburgh’s historic children produce their graveyards are vulnerable own glazing art. to decay, vandalism and neglect Calton Old Burial Ground is shown here..

The glass conservation maintenance, but there are no funds available for Coventry’s late medieval on 14 November 1940. But why repair. Graveyards also offer stained glass was paid for by was it rescued? secluded spaces for anti-social merchants dealing in blue Coventry wasn’t unusual: behaviour, which can deter cloth and millinery - and medieval stained glass was visitors as they feel unsafe. sometimes a combination removed and stored all across The Officer will be ap- of those, to go by a fragment Britain in 1939. As established pointed for two years to develop showing a blue hat with a collectors’ items, old panels the project, and co-ordinate gold hat-pin. That piece is of stained glass had become efforts to improve the condition one of around 11,000 from St valuable. By the late 1930s, and promotion of the grave- Watch Day 2012 Michael’s that miraculously medieval glass was valued by yards. World Monuments Fund escaped destruction, twice: collectors and museums alike, Britain and Edinburgh World first, in the 1640s, when and its removal from buildings Coventry participated in the It was John Thornton’s Heritage have each contributed Puritan iconoclasts attacked to storerooms was prioritised first World Monuments Watch medieval stained glass that £4,000 to the project, which the graven images of the lest more of a finite resource Day on Saturday 8th September provided the inspiration has in turn unlocked additional windows. The many surviving be lost to war. Coventry’s glass 2012 with a children’s stained for Coventry’s Watch Day support from the Pilgrim Trust pieces were then reassembled went to a vicarage in rural War- glass workshop and treasure activities. Children were with an award of £8,000 to in a jumble to fill the clere- wickshire. But it could never go trail. Watch Day is a new asked to draw a portrait fund the post. storey windows above the back home to St Michael’s, for component of WMF’s biennial of themself, a member of main arcades. All those panels when it was hit by firebombs, World Monuments Watch pro- their family or a friend and were taken down for safe the centre of the church gramme, encouraging local these were then placed on a storage when war broke in Sep- crumbled, bringing down the engagement with these sites replica . A colourful tember 1939, one year before masonry of the clerestory. and raising global awareness representation of the 21st Edinburgh Graveyards St Michael’s- now promoted The project to clean the of their vital importance both century emerged as children to cathedral status - was de- glass was conceived this spring, to the communities in which and adults alike absorbed stroyed by incendiary bombs and from summer until they are located and to our themselves in the activity. Included on WMF’s Watch The development officer Christmas Crick-Smith Con- shared human history. Coventry was among List in 2010, Edinburgh’s five will be appointed to carry House Histories of exceptional quality servation from the University around 30 sites across five historic graveyards - the three through the recommenda- RESEARCHED, PHOTOGRAPHED, PRINTED & BOUND of Lincoln set up a studio in the continents partaking in kirkyards of St Cuthbert’s, tions of a recently completed Herbert Gallery so the people of Watch Day. Greyfriars and Canongate report, commissioned by Coventry could watch the faces Plans for the display of the glass and the two burial grounds World Monuments Fund emerge as they passed along and the enhancement of the historic of Old and New Carlton – are Britain and Edinburgh World centre of the city will develop during the production line of swabs, winter and spring 2013. If you would be set to get support through the Heritage Trust, addressing the bonding agents and catalogue interested in supporting the project, appointment of a new devel- task of managing Edinburgh’s please contact Jonathan Foyle on files. Dr Heather Gilderdale [email protected]. opment officer post. historic city centre graveyards. Scott, the medieval glass con- Buried within these The challenges facing sultant is currently working on important historic sites are these sites are complex, but her catalogue which analyses international figures such as often come down to a question the glass collection and com- the economist Adam Smith, of ownership, which has led plements the conservation pro- the philosopher David Hume; to neglect. Headstones, tombs gramme. The catalogue should as well as important char- and memorials are owned by CORNERSTONE be completed for Spring 2013. acters from the history of the the family but over hundreds House Histories city such as the poet Robert of years they are forgotten Fergusson, James Craig who and fall into disrepair. The www.cornerstonehousehistories.co.uk planned the New Town and of City of Edinburgh Council Cat rescue: fragments rebonded and course ‘Greyfriars Bobby’ the and the churches are respec- Phone: 01892 512323 cleaned to reveal a medieval beast. famously loyal Skye Terrier. tively responsible for general

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10 11 events Winchester Cathedral’s West Front LECTURES

Canterbury Cathedral Project Review Seminar and city walking tour

Thursday 6 June, 10.30am-4pm The first annual project review study day seminar is taking place on Canterbury Cathedral is a Wednesday 24th April. 1,400-year story of the nation The seminar is open at 6.30pm in one great, complex and to all Supporters and will varied building. This study Bettany Hughes Mary Beard feature short updates on the series 2013 day reveals its long-held sites we are currently working The World that Birthed Living in the ancient Supporters enjoy priority, everyone is welcome special relationship to Rome, and its Roman Era on. We are also delighted to the geometry of its design, Enduring Impact welcome Rupert Harris from Medieval Coventry London Squares and the rich symbolism of its Rupert Harris Conservation parts. WMF Britain recently Thursday 28 February, 7pm Wednesday 9 October, 7pm who has been working on the Tuesday 19 March, 10.30am-4pm Wednesday 17 April, 10am-4pm assisted with the repair of restoration of the Stowe Lions its stained glass, some of the Bettany Hughes is one of our Through her many broad- which will be returning to the The ruins of St Michael’s From the 1640s in Covent finest of the high , best-known broadcasters, casts and often controversial South Front of the house this St George’s Winchester Cathedral Cathedral, Coventry are a Garden, the more salubrious whilst its collection of later and a specialist in ancient writing, Mary Beard is “Brit- coming spring. Rupert will Bloomsbury and the life and city walking tour uniquely powerful reminder parts of London grew around a medieval tombs each rep- Mediterranean history. This ain’s best-known classicist”, also talk about his work as a of Georgian London of the effects of war. They surprising variety of squares, Wednesday 22 May, 10.30am-4pm resent a work of architecture talk is based on her book ‘The being a Professor of Classics leading conserver of fine met- are also the remains of Eng- in an attempt to make a “truly Thursday 9 May, 10.30am-4pm. in miniature. A walk through Hemlock Cup’, a New York and a fellow of Newnham alwork and sculpture. land’s largest medieval parish magnificent city compa- A thousand years ago, the city places the Cathedral Times Bestseller. Its Athenian College Cambridge as well as The event will include church from which an aston- rable to the Rome of Emperor The last slum of central Winchester was the capital in its medieval context. subject, Socrates, contributed the Classics editor of and nibbles and an ishing collection of stained Augustus”. The apogee took London was cleared in 1904. of England. Its cathedral, the WMFB Members: £55 to a city that nurtured key Literary Supplement. This opportunity to meet other Non-members: £65 glass was removed a year two centuries to arrive, in the For over a century we have longest in England- is an echo ingredients of contemporary evening Mary slices through supporters and likeminded prior to the city’s bombing. vast shape of Eaton Square had the luxury of appreci- of that importance. Now, a year civilisation – democracy, the stereotypes to discuss individuals. It will take place This study day examines the by which time they seemed ating our capital city for its after World Monuments Fund Canterbury Cathedral: the liberty, science, drama, the realities of living in the at The Gallery, 70-75 Cowcross south contains some of imaginative WMFB project to serve as “a wider space monumental boulevards and enabled the refurbishment the country’s finest medieval rational thought – yet, as he ancient Roman era. Street, London EC1M 6EJ. stained glass, c. 1200. to conserve and display the between the genteel and the sanitized alleys. But when and lighting of a fine Baroque wrote nothing in his lifetime, Places are limited so if you would glass within the context of the vulgar race”. Todd Longstaffe- our Watch-listed project St carving, Winchester embarks he himself is an enigmatic like to attend please email Sarah Meaker at [email protected] much overlooked buildings of Gowan, author of The London George’s Bloomsbury was built, on a major project to reveal the figure. Bettany followed in the or call +44 (0)20 7251 8142. medieval Coventry. Square (Yale) takes us on a its fine monumentality served identity of its Anglo-Saxon footsteps of Socrates across WMFB Members: £55 walking to tour to discover a purpose: to solve the ills of monarchs whose jumbled Greece and Asia Minor to shed Non-members: £65 how the phenomenon de- society in a stinking, over- remains lie within Renaissance new light on his world. veloped, and why they have crowded warren. Bloomsbury caskets. Not to be missed. Kindly sponsored by Symm, w w w.symm.co.uk stood the test of time. and Covent Garden were WMFB Members: £55 Non-members: £65 WMFB Members: £55 amongst the worst areas of Non-members: £65 London, the scene of Hoga- Please note: this day will include rth’s ‘Gin Lane’. Gavin Stamp Study Day a significant amount of walking between sites. explains the astonishingly Details HOW TO BOOK refined architecture; Hallie Kindly sponsored by Symm, Rubenhold reveals the Price includes lunch Call +44 (0)20 7251 8142 or book online at w w w.symm.co.uk shocking low-life. and refreshments www.wmf.org.uk/activities WMFB Members: £55 throughout the day and Non-members: £65 all entrances. VENUE Please note: this day will include Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR a significant amount of walking (doors open and a bar is available from 6.30pm). between sites. To book please call +44 (0) 20 7251 8142 TICKETS or book online at WMFB Members/Supporters £10 Full price £15 www.wmf.org.uk/activities spring 2013

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