The Ecclesiological Society

EVENTS  2008

Last update: 28 Feb 2008 

This page lists events organised both by the Ecclesiological Society (underlined) and other Societies. In one way or another all events are related to churches, their furnishings and use.

For events of other Societies, details have been extracted from their published programmes, and enquiries should be addressed to the organisation in question, not to us.

Addresses, phone numbers and email addresses will be found in the Organisations page of this website, though we are now making a more systematic attempt to put a link into each of the entries below, thus saving you a precious five seconds.

If you know of any other events which we should add to this site, send us an e-mail.
 



Long courses and lecture series

English Medieval Churches
Three year part-time Continuing Education Certificate offered by School of Continuing Education, Leeds University
Contact 0113 233 3222

Exhibitions during 2008

1 Nov 2007 - 17 Feb 2008
'The Holiness of Beauty: G. F. Bodley (1827-1907) and his circle'
Exhibition of drawings by Bodley and his office in the Architecture Gallery of the V&A

 7 Nov 2007 - 17 February 2008
The art of light: German Renaissance stained glass
At the National Gallery
Exhibition of stained glass and paintings of the same period, with explanatory section on the making of stained glass.

16 Feb 2008 - 30 March 2008
Italian Cemetery Monuments - photographic exhibition
To be held at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Events during 2008

Wednesday 6 Feb 2008
The 'Muiredach Master' and the sculpture of the Irish high crosses
by Professor Roger Stalley
British Archaeological Association lecture
5.00pm, Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Non-members are welcome to attend occasional lectures, making themselves known to the Hon. Director, and signing the visitor's book.

Friday 8 Feb 2008
Taking Stock: The rapid assessment of historic church buildings - methods and approaches
Course at Rewley House, Oxford

Saturday 13 Feb
Church Monuments Society
Excursion: London

Wednesday 5 March
The archaeology of Leicester Abbey
by Richard Buckley
British Archaeological Association lecture
5.00pm, Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Non-members are welcome to attend occasional lectures, making themselves known to the Hon. Director, and signing the visitor's book.

26th - 28th March
Salisbury Cathedral 750: the building and its life
A two-day conference to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the dedication of Salisbury Cathedral

Weekend: 28 - 31 March
Church Monuments Society
Excursion: Romney Marsh churches

Monday  31 March
John Vigar church tours
Excursion: North-west Kent Churches

Wednesday 16 April
The re-ordering and restoration of St George’s, Bloomsbury
Organised by the Ecclesiological Society
6.30 pm
in St George’s Church, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1 (nearest tube: Holborn).
This is the tenth Stephen Dykes Bower Memorial lecture, given by Colin Kerr, RIBA, the architect for the recently completed project for the conservation and re-planning of Hawksmoor’s masterpiece. To be followed by a tour of the church and an informal reception. Prior booking essential.
Tickets £15 per person (including reception) from Paul Velluet, 9 Bridge Road, St Margarets, Twickenham, TW1 1RE enclosing sae, or email info@ecclsoc.org

Wednesday 16 April
John Vigar church tours
Excursion: North Kent Churches

Sunday 27 April
Ketteringham, Norfolk - ceremony to hand over to the Mausolea and Monuments Trust the newly-restored Boileau Mausoleum

Saturday 3 May
Church Monuments Society
Excursion: Liverpool churches

Wednesday 7 May
Victorian 'High' Churches of Leeds (including choral evensong) (coach tour)

Organised by the Ecclesiological Society
 Meet at Leeds Railway Station at 11.00am. Evensong – a BCP service without sermon – will be over by 6.00 and will enable attendees to catch the 6.30 train to London. Prior booking essential before 1 April. Fee: £18.00. Free time for pub lunch or bring your own.
Churches to be visited include some of the city’s best interiors: St Anne’s Cathedral (RC), 1901–4, Eastwood and Greenslade, recently the subject of an extensive and very successful internal restoration; St Bartholomew, Armley, 1872–8, Walker and Athron, fine Tractarian interior; All Souls, Blackman Lane, 1876–80, G G Scott; St Hilda’s, 1876–82, Micklethwaite; St Saviours, 1842–5, J M Derick; Leeds Parish Church, 1837–41, R D Chantrell, important pre-Camdenian design. To book, telephone Christopher  Webster 0113 393 5165 or email chris@webster4945.fsnet.co.uk

Saturday 10 May
Norwich City Churches (walking tour)
Organised by the Ecclesiological Society
Saturday 10 May 2008, meet at 10.30 at the tower arches of St Peter Mancroft. Prior booking essential. Fee: £5.00 to cover donations to churches visited. Free time for lunch.
The churches to be visited will be announced nearer the time. However, it should be noted that this will be the seventh annual tour given by Nicholas and these have proved to be very popular with members.
To book, telephone Nicholas Groves 01603 764090, mobile 07944 974775 or email n.groves@uea.ac.uk

Wednesday 14 May
John Vigar church tours
Excursion: East Kent Churches

Saturday 17 May 2008
Symposium on parish research: Parish Pieties
Organised by the Warwick Network for Parish Research

Thursday 22 May
Mausolea and Monuments Trust
AGM and lecture

Wednesday 11 June
Ecclesiological Society AGM and Annual Lecture
Lecture: A cathedral thrice rebuilt: Llandaff cathedral through the centuries by Dr Donald Buttress, President of the Society <>Wednesday 11 June 2008, at the Artworkers Guild, Queen Square, London, WC1 (just south of junction of Guilford St with Russell Square; nearest tube station is Russell Square). Doors open 6.00, lecture 6.30 followed by the AGM at about 7.45, and an informal reception at about 8.15.
Later in the year (October) the Society’s annual conference will focus on Welsh churches. This lecture should whet our appetite, dealing as it does with one of Wales’s most important churches, rebuilt in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and containing significant works of art such as Rossetti’s ‘Seed of David’ altarpiece. Dr Buttress was Architect to the Cathedral and is well placed to introduce us to its special qualities.

Free to members and their guests (no booking required)

<>Thursday 19 June
‘Versions of Gothic’: a wealth of buildings in a short distance around Chancery Lane, London (walking tour)
Thursday 19 June 2008
, 2.00pm–c.5.30/6.00pm. Meet at Inner Temple Gateway (under Prince Henry’s Room) west end of Fleet Street, south side. Prior booking essential.  
Buildings to be visited include: Temple Church (c. 1180 and c. 1230); St Dunstan in the West (John Shaw sen and jun., 1830
3); Royal Courts of Justice (Street, 187182); Lincoln’s Inn Chapel (161933); St Alban, Holborn (Butterfield, 185662 and Adrian Scott after war damage); St Etheldreda, Ely Place [RC] (former chapel of the Bishops of Ely, c. 1285 and c. 1875).
To book, telephone Mark Ockelton 020 7073 4002.

Thursday 19 June
John Vigar church tours
Excursion: North-east Kent Churches

Saturday 21 June
Church Monuments Society
Excursion: Isle of Wight churches

Thursday 10 July
John Vigar church tours
Excursion: Churches around Gravesend

Saturday 12 July
Conference: Benedict XVI and the Sacred Liturgy
Organised by St Colman's Society for Catholic Liturgy
To be held at Fota Island, Ireland. For details, click here

Thursday 7 August
John Vigar church tours
Excursion: Churches around Dartford

Saturday 27 August
Church Monuments Society
Walking tour: Ipswich churches

Saturday 6 September
London City Churches (walking tour)
Organised by the Ecclesiological Society
Saturday 6 September 2008, 1.30–c.5.00pm. Prior booking essential. Fee: five pounds.
The tour will considering the ways in which some of the City churches have been adapted in the years following their construction to reflect changing patterns of liturgy, architectural styles, finance and especially the question of repairs following WWII  bomb damage. The tour leader, Andrew Derrick, has researched these aspects of the City churches for many years. Churches to be visited will include some of the following: St Margaret, Lothbury; St Michael, Cornhill; St Edmund the King; St Mary, Woolnoth; St Stephen, Walbrook; St Mary le Bow; St Vedast, Foster Lane.
To book, telephone Andrew Derrick 01473 422727

Saturday 6 September
Church Monuments Society
AGM of Society in Warwick, St Mary

Tuesday 9 September
John Vigar church tours
Excursion: East Kent Churches

Saturday 13 September
Two plus two: Suburban Churches in Newcastle (coach tour)
Saturday 13 September 2008, 12.00–5.30. Meet at Newcastle Central Station. Prior booking essential, before 31 July. Fee: £18.00. Free time for pub lunch or bring own.
The tour is being led by Neil Moat, who gave the well-received lecture on
St George’s, Jesmond at the Society’s AGM in 2007:
<>The first 2 churches, by Newcastle’s most eminent Victorian church architect R J Johnson illustrate the impact of Bodley’s High Church doctrine of ‘refinement’. These are St Matthew’s, Summerhill, 1877 and All Saints, North Gosforth, 1885. The other two churches reveal the reaction to Bodley’s philosophy. These are St George’s Jesmond, 1886–90, T R Spence, demonstrating Arts and Crafts principles, and Sts James & Basil, Fenham, 1928–34, E E Lofting, best described as ‘Temple Moore crossed with Arts and Crafts’. To book, telephone Neil Moat 0191 257 2859 (leave a message if answer phone activated.)

12 - 14 September 2008
The Archaeology of Post-medieval religion
A conference to be held at Norwich, organised jointly by the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology and the Society for Church Archaeology

Saturday 27 September
Mausolea and Monuments Trust
Visit to West Norwood Cemetery

Saturday 4 October
Ecclesiological Society annual conference - subject: Welsh Churches
Further details will be posted on the website when available.

Thursday 16 October
John Vigar church tours
Excursion: Churches around Whitstable

Saturday 18 October
Church Monuments Society
Excursion: Middlesex

Saturday 6 & 7 December
Church Monuments Society
Excursion: Christmas event

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