Your holiday summary
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Special interest holidays Art & archaeology |
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United Kingdom |
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Make your own way |
| Price range | From £299 |
| Travel partner | Travel Editions |
| Duration | 2 nights |
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Arts and Crafts Treasures of the Heart of England
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Taking you from Wightwick Manor, a "House Beautiful" crammed full of treasures, to the Arts and Crafts churches of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, this special interest tour encompasses a wealth of high Victorian art and architecture.
Special Event highlights: Lectures from Dr Anne Anderson 'House Beautiful' Wightwick Manor Original Morris & Co wallpapers, fabrics and furniture Pre-Raphaelite art in Birmingham Art Gallery Beautiful Arts & Crafts churches in rural Gloucestershire and Herefordshire
Your guides are Dr Anne Anderson a NADFAS lecturer and Art & Crafts specialist whose academic papers have appeared in the Journal of the William Morris Society, Journal of the Pre-Raphaelite Society and many others. Anne will be joined by her husband Dr Scott Anderson, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design and is an Honorary Fellow of the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers.
Please note: This tour involves a considerable amount of walking and is therefore not suitable for people with walking difficulties.
Special Event highlights: Lectures from Dr Anne Anderson 'House Beautiful' Wightwick Manor Original Morris & Co wallpapers, fabrics and furniture Pre-Raphaelite art in Birmingham Art Gallery Beautiful Arts & Crafts churches in rural Gloucestershire and Herefordshire
Your guides are Dr Anne Anderson a NADFAS lecturer and Art & Crafts specialist whose academic papers have appeared in the Journal of the William Morris Society, Journal of the Pre-Raphaelite Society and many others. Anne will be joined by her husband Dr Scott Anderson, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design and is an Honorary Fellow of the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers.
Please note: This tour involves a considerable amount of walking and is therefore not suitable for people with walking difficulties.
Included
- Two nights' accommodation with full breakfast at the 4-star Hilton Birmingham Bromsgrove Hotel
- Welcome reception
- Thursday private 3 course dinner with wine
- Friday 3 course dinner
- One light lunch
- All talks, guided tours, and admissions
- Coach transfers and tour manager throughout
Not included
- Single room supplement
- Extra nights
- Holiday Insurance
- Meals other than those stated
- Items of a personal nature such as drinks, telephone calls, laundry etc
- Porterage and gratuities
Thursday evening
Lecture by Anne Anderson “Understanding the Pre-Raphaelites”
Friday
The Mander family were allegedly inspired to create Wightwick Manor after hearing Oscar Wilde give his famous 'House Beautiful' lecture in Wolverhampton; it is filled with treasures from Burne-Jones’s poignant 'Love Among the Ruins' to G.F Watts’s sumptuous 'Jeanie' Hughes, Mrs Nassau Senior. After lunch (not included) continue to Birmingham City Art Gallery to see masterpieces by Ford Madox Brown (The Last of England), John Everett Millais (The Blind Girl), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Proserpine) and Edward Burne- Jones’s Pygmalion series. Finally you go to St Philip’s Cathedral to marvel at the spectacular reds and pinks of Burne-Jones’s Ascension, Nativity, Crucifixion and Last Judgement windows. Evening talk by Anne Anderson “Victorian Gothic to Arts and Crafts”.
Saturday
Travel first to Malvern in Worcestershire and a stop off at The Chapel of the Beauchamp Community where the organist Charles Allsopp will explain the murals and the history of the community of almshouses for the retired agricultural workers from the Madresfield estate. In 2009 a terrific amount of work was completed to refurbish the organ (Nicholsons of Worcester, 1864) and the beautiful but damaged murals in the east end of the building which have been restored where there has been water damage. Then onto All Saints' Church at Brockhampton, set high above the River Wye. A perfect Arts and Crafts church enriched with Morris/Burne-Jones tapestries and windows by Christopher Whall. All Saint’s Brockhampton is architect William Lethaby’s masterpiece and the thatched roof belying its completion in 1902. After a light lunch (included) at the Old Court Manor near Ross-On-Wye you will be guided around Kempley’s two delightful churches: St Edward’s, built in 1903 by Randall Wells using local craftsmen, fulfils the idealism of a movement that sought to make work meaningful and pleasurable. Then, after tea and cake in the Village Hall, we go to the outskirts of the village to visit St. Mary’s which is Kempley’s Norman church, with its astonishing medieval wall paintings, stained glass window by Kempe and the oldest open timber roof structure in NW Europe. Return to your hotel is approximately 17.30pm.
NB: Exact order of excursions may vary according to local conditions and tour managers' discretion
Please note the maximum group size on this tour is 49 passengers.
Lecture by Anne Anderson “Understanding the Pre-Raphaelites”
Friday
The Mander family were allegedly inspired to create Wightwick Manor after hearing Oscar Wilde give his famous 'House Beautiful' lecture in Wolverhampton; it is filled with treasures from Burne-Jones’s poignant 'Love Among the Ruins' to G.F Watts’s sumptuous 'Jeanie' Hughes, Mrs Nassau Senior. After lunch (not included) continue to Birmingham City Art Gallery to see masterpieces by Ford Madox Brown (The Last of England), John Everett Millais (The Blind Girl), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Proserpine) and Edward Burne- Jones’s Pygmalion series. Finally you go to St Philip’s Cathedral to marvel at the spectacular reds and pinks of Burne-Jones’s Ascension, Nativity, Crucifixion and Last Judgement windows. Evening talk by Anne Anderson “Victorian Gothic to Arts and Crafts”.
Saturday
Travel first to Malvern in Worcestershire and a stop off at The Chapel of the Beauchamp Community where the organist Charles Allsopp will explain the murals and the history of the community of almshouses for the retired agricultural workers from the Madresfield estate. In 2009 a terrific amount of work was completed to refurbish the organ (Nicholsons of Worcester, 1864) and the beautiful but damaged murals in the east end of the building which have been restored where there has been water damage. Then onto All Saints' Church at Brockhampton, set high above the River Wye. A perfect Arts and Crafts church enriched with Morris/Burne-Jones tapestries and windows by Christopher Whall. All Saint’s Brockhampton is architect William Lethaby’s masterpiece and the thatched roof belying its completion in 1902. After a light lunch (included) at the Old Court Manor near Ross-On-Wye you will be guided around Kempley’s two delightful churches: St Edward’s, built in 1903 by Randall Wells using local craftsmen, fulfils the idealism of a movement that sought to make work meaningful and pleasurable. Then, after tea and cake in the Village Hall, we go to the outskirts of the village to visit St. Mary’s which is Kempley’s Norman church, with its astonishing medieval wall paintings, stained glass window by Kempe and the oldest open timber roof structure in NW Europe. Return to your hotel is approximately 17.30pm.
NB: Exact order of excursions may vary according to local conditions and tour managers' discretion
Please note the maximum group size on this tour is 49 passengers.
Hilton Birmingham Bromsgrove
Located 20 minutes from Birmingham Airport, the 4-star Hilton Birmingham Bromsgrove Hotel is ideally located for the visits on this tour. Facilities at the hotel include a restaurant, bar, fitness centre, indoor pool and comfortable bedrooms with private bath/shower, TV and telephone. Parking is available onsite for £5 per day payable directly to the hotel.
Located 20 minutes from Birmingham Airport, the 4-star Hilton Birmingham Bromsgrove Hotel is ideally located for the visits on this tour. Facilities at the hotel include a restaurant, bar, fitness centre, indoor pool and comfortable bedrooms with private bath/shower, TV and telephone. Parking is available onsite for £5 per day payable directly to the hotel.
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