Events
The Victorian Society organises a wide variety of events. They are publicised first to members in the 'Blue Sheet' with our mailings in February, June and October. Some require booking, others you can just turn up on the day. When they are oversubscribed, a ballot is held, and members get first preference.
For events organised by our regional groups, please see the regional group pages.
A practice like no other: Sharpe, Paley & Austin Tour
Wednesday 23 May:
A three-day tour led by Geoff Brandwood looking at the work of England's greatest provincial architectural practice.
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Architecture and Patronage: the Southern Fens
Saturday 9 June:
10am to 5.15pm. Led by Charles O’Brien. The Victorians completed the drainage and agricultural improvements of the Fens which had been in train since the seventeenth century: we will visit buildings associated with this.
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Pub crawl: Covent Garden area
Monday 11 June:
6.30pm to 8.45pm. Geoff Brandwood leads a visit to four pubs around Covent Garden.
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Supper lecture: Charles Dickens’s London
Wednesday 13 June:
6.45pm for 7pm. An illustrated lecture by Andrew Sanders, former Professor of English at Durham University and long-time member of the Victorian Society, to celebrate the 200th birthday of the great novelist.
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Two churches in Belgravia and Pimlico
Thursday 14 June:
6.30pm to about 8pm. An evening visit to St Barnabas, St Barnabas Street, and St Mary, Bourne Street led by Michael Hall who has recently completed
a biography of Bodley.
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Walk: 19th-century Brentford: the growth, decline and regeneration of a Middlesex town
Tuesday 26 June:
6.30pm to about 8.15pm. An early evening walk around 19th-century Brentford led by Paul Velluet.
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Pub crawl: Covent Garden area
Monday 2 July:
6.30pm to 8.45pm. Geoff Brandwood leads a visit to four pubs around Covent Garden.
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Visit to St George’s RC Cathedral, Southwark
Sunday 8 July:
3pm to about 4.30pm. To mark the bicentenary of the birth of AWN Pugin, Rory O’Donnell will lead a visit to the architect’s most ambitious London church.
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AGM Weekend in and around Newcastle with optional visit to Cragside on Monday 16 July
Friday 13 July:
Our AGM weekend will explore the splendid architecture of Newcastle and Gateshead which deserves to be much better known. Unlike other large cities which expanded rapidly during the nineteenth century, most buildings were by local architects, and the classical tradition remained strong.
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Henry Woodyer in Surrey Day
Saturday 4 August:
9.45am to 5.30pm. Led by Geoff Brandwood, a day by coach in Surrey visiting buildings designed by Henry Woodyer.
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Scott in Warwickshire II
Friday 17 August:
10.45am to 6pm. The second of our visits to Warwickshire this year, organised as before by Michael Whitaker and Gavin Stamp, concentrates on High Victorian Gothic buildings in and around Rugby by Gilbert Scott, Butterfield and Pugin.
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