
On Saturday 6th May 2023
King Charles III will be crowned
in Westminster Abbey
by the Archbishop of Canterbury
On Saturday 6th May 2023
King Charles III will be crowned
in Westminster Abbey
by the Archbishop of Canterbury
A walk in the country; you come upon the typical village country church. This lecture will help you look at the architecture inside and out, the church furniture, those mysterious nooks and crannies, high and low. How and why did it all come to look this way? This is a fascinating journey through English history unravelled before your eyes. “I can’t make you experts” says Nicholas Henderson, “but I can teach you enough to amaze your friends on that day in the countryside.”
The English Country Church
– a four-part Tetraology
given in individual sections or as a Study Day
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Part one: The Pre-Christian to the Anglo-Saxons
Part two: The Normans to the Tudors
Part three: The Tudors to the Commonwealth
Part four: The Georgians & The Victorians to the present
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The English Country Church
The Pre-Christian to the present in four parts
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Four lectures delivered
as individual lectures
or as a Study Day
Elizabeth of York, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr, Lady Jane Grey, Mary, Elizabeth. Deadlier than the male, powers behind and on the throne, formative figures in a tumultuous era whose various influences are with us to this day. Click for synopsis below:
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(given in chronological order)
1. Fortitude & Fancy – Elizabeth of York, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn
2. Fulfilment & Farce – Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves
3. Folly & Finale – Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr
4. Whatever happened after Henry VIII? –
Lady Jane Grey, Mary and Elizabeth
ANNE OF CLEVES – ENGLAND’S HALF-FORGOTTEN QUEEN
Part two of part two of a Tetralogy,
a four part series available one part at a time or as a Study Day
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And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On England’s pleasant pastures seen!
Words: William Blake 1808 Music: Sir Charles Hubert H. Parry 1916
Canute, to William the Conqueror, to the Tudors and everything in between.
The Anglo-Saxons and the Normans – gave us an enduring legacy,
but so did the Danes and the Church.
An often forgotten and mysterious period in what was to become …
‘English’ history.
The legacy lingers on visibly and even audibly in architecture, linguistics
and society.
An exploration into the great upheavals in society and community that disrupted and formed the cultural feeds into what was to become England and eventually Great Britain.
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The destruction of of perceived idols in religion, architecture and society is a surprisingly frequent phenomenon in history, which has shaped and formed society – sometimes for the better.