This trip explores how the three Grade I listed buildings in the Sussex town of East Grinstead are connected through their Victorian architects. Starting at the Jacobean Sackville College we will meet John Mason Neale, warden from 1846 and co-founder of the Ecclesiological Society, and see the chapel re-ordering he commissioned from William Butterfield. We’ll then move on to the Old Convent created for Neale’s Anglican sisterhood of St Margaret and built by GE Street from 1870. Street was still working on the buildings at his death and it was his son who finally completed the complex in 1900. We will have lunch at the superb Arts and Crafts house of Standen, designed around an existing farmhouse by Philip Webb. We will see the outside and gardens then enjoy a special tour of the interior with its William Morris wallpaper and WAS Benson lighting.
Kathryn Ferry will be leading this tour. She is an independent architectural historian, writer and lecturer. Her research interests include seaside history and Victorian architecture, specifically the work of designer Owen Jones. She has writen about the Old Convent in East Grinstead.
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Image: Standen House
By Diliff – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32781187