VISITS
Enriching Lives Through The Arts
Enriching Lives Through The Arts
Our wonderful visits, three a year, are carefully chosen to give members and their guests an opportunity to see very special places and learn more about the history of the houses, gardens and museums than are generally available.
TUESDAY 14TH APRIL 2020
STRATFIELD SAYE and SANDHAM MEMORIAL CHAPEL
Stratfield Saye House has been the elegant, but intimate home to the Dukes of Wellington since 1817. The house and gardens offer an intriguing and informative insight into the life of the Great Duke of Wellington.
Sandham Memorial Chapel, in the village of Burghclere, is a grade I listed 1920s decorated chapel, designed by Lionel Godfrey Pearson. The chapel was built to accommodate a series of paintings by the English artist Stanley Spencer.
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Booking forms are available on the Visits desk at our meetings on the 4th Tuesday of each month
TUESDAY 9th JUNE 2020
GILBERT WHITE HOUSE AND MUSEUM
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MOTTISFONT HOUSE AND GARDENS
Gilbert White & The Oates Collections celebrates the lives of three explorers of the natural world. The historic house was the home of the eighteenth century pioneering naturalist Gilbert White; whose major work The Natural History of Selborne has never been out of print since its publication in 1789.
The Museum is also home to the Oates Collections where visitors can discover the stories of the nineteenth century explorer Frank Oates, who travelled extensively around Africa and Central America and the heroic Captain Lawrence Oates. The Collection commemorates the life of Lawrence Oates, who travelled with Scott to the South Pole.
At Mottisfont House and Gardens, sweeping lawns surround the converted medieval priory that Maud Russell made her home in the 1930. She brought artists such as Rex Whistler's extraordinary trompe l'oeil drawing room. There is also a permanent 20th-century art collection, gifted by Derek Hill. In the gardens, the world-famous collection of old-fashioned roses flowers once a year in June.
TUESDAY 6th OCTOBER 2020
CASTELL COCH AND LLANCAIACH FAWR MANOR
Castell Coch is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the village of Tongwynlais in South Wales. The first castle on the site was built by the Normans after 1081, to protect the newly conquered town of Cardiff and control the route along the Taff Gorge.
Llancaiach Fawr Manor will give everyone a superb experience in a very special Welsh manor house Built in c1550 for Dafydd ap Richard, the manor was designed to be easily defended during the turbulent reigns of Tudor kings and queens and is one of the finest examples of a semi-fortified manor in Wales today.
Visits Secretaries:
David and Mary du Croz - 01672 511725