Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch will talk about "Pevsner and me" on Monday 8 December at 7pm (followed by drinks!) at St James the Less, Pimlico, SW1.
Book here:
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Holy Trinity, Hastings rescued by NLHF grant

Read more here and download the Society's booklet about churches by Holy Trinity's architect, Samuel Sanders Teulon:
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Mr Hutchinson makes a good point in his letter to The Times last week:

The Third Brandwood Lecture: "Pevsner and Me" given by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Monday, 8th December 2025, St James-the-Less, Pimlico, SW1V 2PS

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Significant "Owen Jones" church reopens

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Victorian and Edwardian Furnishings in Kensington & Chelsea Churches A lecture by Fr Evan McWilliams exploring furnishings such as altarpieces, font covers and stained glass in Kensington and Chelsea.

Late Victorian and Edwardian Furnishings in the Churches of Kensington and Chelsea
@thevicsoc lecture by the Revd Dr Evan McWilliams

Tuesday 7 October, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
St Mary Abbots Church
Kensington Church Street, W8 4LA

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Book now!
Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral
Saturday, 4th October 2025
St James-the-Less, London SW1V 2PS
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Ysenda Maxtone Graham in The Times writes about the witty young vicar, the Revd Fergus Butler Gallie, who explores his faith using the stories of a dozen sacred spaces.
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J.L.Petit – painter An exhibition of Petit’s East Midlands paintings – Rutland County Museum, Oakham, August 23rd to October 4th, 2025 Oakham Buttercross Opening Times The Exhibition can be viewed during t…

An exhibition of JL Petit’s East Midlands paintings at Rutland County Museum, Oakham, August 23rd to October 4th:
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and a symposium at the museum on Saturday September 27th:
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A couple of correspondents have identified this as St Mary, Usk, Monmouthshire.

Summer quiz - can you identify this mystery nave and screen? We can't!

Very grateful to Christopher Howse for his review of @ecclsoc.bsky.social Stained Glass Revivals in today's @telegraphnews.bsky.social. "Learned & beautifully illustrated". Also grateful to all the authors for sharing their expertise. Copies available to buy here: www.ecclsoc.org.uk/news/stained...

Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral - Saturday, 4 October, 2025 - Abstract 4
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral: Giles Gilbert Scott’s enormous building. (Dr David Lewis, fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.)
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So many thanks to Dr Mark Kirby
‪@markkirby.bsky.social‬, Prof Peregrine Horden, Dr Geoffrey Tyack and Harry Spain for leading an outstanding day in Oxford, visiting the chapels of Lincoln College. All Souls' College (pictured), Exeter College and Pusey House.

Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral - Saturday, 4 October, 2025 - Abstract 3

Andrew Derrick, Vice Chairman of the Society and architectural consultant, who has worked with a number of these cathedrals
(Picture: Westminster Cathedral)

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Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral - Saturday, 4 October, 2025 - Abstract 2
Coventry Cathedral: Prof Louise Campbell, University of Warwick; expert in architecture from late C19 and author of books on Coventry and Basil Spence
Book here:
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AGM Annual Lecture now available online

“St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster and the House of Commons, 1292-1950” by Professor John Cooper:

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Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral - Saturday, 4 October, 2025 - Abstract 1
The Rev Dr Allan Doig:
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Butterfield and the recuperation to the parish church - Part 3

In this series of posts Nicholas Olsberg, the author of recent Lund Humphries book ‘The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times’, discusses the churches of Tadlow & East Hatley.

Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral
4th October 2025
This year’s conference looks at the phenomenon of the on-going building and designation of new cathedrals in the twentieth century by the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church.
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Butterfield and the recuperation to the parish church - Part 2

In this series of posts Nicholas Olsberg, the author of recent Lund Humphries book ‘The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times’, discusses the churches of Tadlow & East Hatley.

Published last year by Lund Humphries: "The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times" by Nicholas Olsberg

The @ecclsoc.bsky.social conference proceedings just landed on the doormat. A real beauty. Wonderful chapters by Robert Walker, Jim cheshire, Jasmine Allen, Martin Crampin and Diana Coulter. Thank you all.

In the latest edition of British Art Studies Dr Joshua Mardell pays a significant tribute to the inestimable Gavin Stamp, whose untimely death in 2017 robbed architectural history of one if its "underexplored traditions: the activist-scholar".
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The @churchmonuments.bsky.social Society has two vacant positions: co-editor and reviews editor of its journal "Church Monuments".
For more info please contact
Jonathan Trigg (editor): jrtrigg@googlemail.com or
Nicola Lowe (reviews editor): reviews.churchmonumentssociety@gmail.com

Book now for the free Annual Lecture on 13 June (following the AGM) to be given online by Prof John Cooper on “St Stephen's Chapel Westminster and the House of Commons, 1292-1950”.
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The Rogue Goths - R.L. Roumieu, Joseph Peacock and Bassett Keeling by Edmund Harris - The Victorian Society Edmund Harris’s book is the first study devoted to a much-discussed yet poorly-covered chapter in British architectural history which produced some of Victorian England’s most striking and dramatic Go...

Another in the Vic Soc's series, Edmund Harris’s terrific book is the first study devoted to a much-discussed yet poorly-covered chapter in British architectural history which produced some of the most striking and dramatic Victorian churches.
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George Edmund Street by Geoff Brandwood - The Victorian Society George Edmund Street by Geoff Brandwood from The Victorian Society - Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage

Published last year in the Victorian Society’s Architects Series to mark the bicentenary of his birth, this is the first monograph of G E Street.
Geoff Brandwood was a member of the Ecclesiological Society's Council and a former chairman of the Vic Soc.
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Pugin’s Vision Brought Back to Life at Nottingham Cathedral. - Nottingham Cathedral Nottingham Cathedral awarded £1.69M National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant for its Restoring Pugin Project.

Nottingham Cathedral is delighted to announce that it has received a £1.69 million grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to bring Pugin's vision back to life.
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The Keltek Trust: helping churches acquire surplus and/or redundant bells to be hung for English-style full-circle bell-ringing
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St Michael, Buckland Dinham, Somerset - the first church to receive a bell donated by the Keltek Trust: