Your holiday summary
| Holiday type |
Art & archaeology |
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| Country |
United Kingdom |
| Travel type |
Make your own way |
| Price range | From £309 |
| Travel partner | Travel Editions |
| Duration | 2 nights |
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Victorian Dreamers
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Visit the wonderful Watts Gallery and Royal Holloway University
The Victorian era saw the rise of philanthropy, particularly the preoccupation with social improvement through creative enlightenment and beautiful revival art and architecture was used to lessen the ugliness of industrialisation and urban sprawl. On this tour you will examine these ideas with Victorian arts & design expert Dr Anne Anderson or Mike Hope, and visit some wonderful examples such as the newly reopened Watts Gallery and his unique studio home Limnerlease, Watts Mortuary Chapel, Royal Holloway University, and St Michael and St Mary Magdalene's Church to view Burne-Jones' masterpiece The Last Judgement.
Special Event highlights: Lectures by Dr Anne Anderson or Mike Hope The newly restored Watt's Gallery The extravagant Royal Holloway College Arts & Crafts Norney Grange Stained glass at Easthampstead
The Victorian era saw the rise of philanthropy, particularly the preoccupation with social improvement through creative enlightenment and beautiful revival art and architecture was used to lessen the ugliness of industrialisation and urban sprawl. On this tour you will examine these ideas with Victorian arts & design expert Dr Anne Anderson or Mike Hope, and visit some wonderful examples such as the newly reopened Watts Gallery and his unique studio home Limnerlease, Watts Mortuary Chapel, Royal Holloway University, and St Michael and St Mary Magdalene's Church to view Burne-Jones' masterpiece The Last Judgement.
Special Event highlights: Lectures by Dr Anne Anderson or Mike Hope The newly restored Watt's Gallery The extravagant Royal Holloway College Arts & Crafts Norney Grange Stained glass at Easthampstead
Included
- Two nights' accommodation with full breakfast at the 4-star Ramada Guildford
- Thursday 3-course dinner with wine
- Friday dinner in the hotel restaurant
- Light lunches at Watts Gallery and Royal Holloway College
- Welcome reception
- All talks, guided tours, admissions
- Coach transfers and tour manager throughout
Not included
- Single room supplement
- Extra nights on dinner, bed & breakfast basis with the extra visits included
- Holiday insurance
- Meals other than those stated
- Items of a personal n ature such as drinks, laundry, telephone calls etc
- Porterage and gratuities
Thursday
Evening introductory lecture by Dr Anne Anderson or Mike Hope, 'Victorian Dreamers: Watts and Holloway', followed by dinner with wine.
Friday
Morning guided tour of the astonishing and extravagant Royal Holloway, University of London. Royal Holloway College was founded in 1879 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Thomas Holloway as a woman only institution. You will visit the Founder's Building, which is based on the Loire's Chateau Chambord, the Founder's Library, College Chapel and The Picture Gallery, which is filled with Victorian classics. A light lunch is included. In the afternoon we will visit St. Michael & St Mary Magdalene Church in Easthampstead, to view the four stained glass windows by Sir-Edward Burne-Jones in collaboration with Morris & Co. including The Last Judgement. Evening talk by Dr Anne Anderson or Mike Hope "G.F Watts and Mary Watts: Visionary Dreamers" followed by dinner.
Saturday
To Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, home to over 6000 paintings and sculptures. Reopened in 2010 following extensive restoration, the gallery was originally founded by George Frederic Watts and his wife Mary Fraser-Tytler to showcase his work. You will also visit the extraordinary Mortuary Chapel, designed by Mary Fraser-Tytler in the Gothic Revival style and paid for by Watts, the chapel was a gift to the villagers of Compton who helped to build it and decorate the interior - a classic example of Victorian philanthropy. After a light lunch (included), we will have a tour of Limnerslease, the home and studio of the eminent painter G. F Watts, which was commissioned from the Arts & Crafts architect Ernest George. Our final visit of the day is to Norney Grange, an outstanding Arts & Crafts house by the architect C.F.A Voysey, where the proud owner Russell Clapshaw will show us around. Return to the hotel for approximately 17.00pm.
NB: Exact order of excursions may vary according to local conditions and tour manager's discretion.
Please note the maximum group size on this tour is 49 passengers.
Evening introductory lecture by Dr Anne Anderson or Mike Hope, 'Victorian Dreamers: Watts and Holloway', followed by dinner with wine.
Friday
Morning guided tour of the astonishing and extravagant Royal Holloway, University of London. Royal Holloway College was founded in 1879 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Thomas Holloway as a woman only institution. You will visit the Founder's Building, which is based on the Loire's Chateau Chambord, the Founder's Library, College Chapel and The Picture Gallery, which is filled with Victorian classics. A light lunch is included. In the afternoon we will visit St. Michael & St Mary Magdalene Church in Easthampstead, to view the four stained glass windows by Sir-Edward Burne-Jones in collaboration with Morris & Co. including The Last Judgement. Evening talk by Dr Anne Anderson or Mike Hope "G.F Watts and Mary Watts: Visionary Dreamers" followed by dinner.
Saturday
To Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, home to over 6000 paintings and sculptures. Reopened in 2010 following extensive restoration, the gallery was originally founded by George Frederic Watts and his wife Mary Fraser-Tytler to showcase his work. You will also visit the extraordinary Mortuary Chapel, designed by Mary Fraser-Tytler in the Gothic Revival style and paid for by Watts, the chapel was a gift to the villagers of Compton who helped to build it and decorate the interior - a classic example of Victorian philanthropy. After a light lunch (included), we will have a tour of Limnerslease, the home and studio of the eminent painter G. F Watts, which was commissioned from the Arts & Crafts architect Ernest George. Our final visit of the day is to Norney Grange, an outstanding Arts & Crafts house by the architect C.F.A Voysey, where the proud owner Russell Clapshaw will show us around. Return to the hotel for approximately 17.00pm.
NB: Exact order of excursions may vary according to local conditions and tour manager's discretion.
Please note the maximum group size on this tour is 49 passengers.
Ramada Guildford
Located in the peaceful Surrey countryside within a charming 1930's Tudor style building, the 4-star Ramada Guildford Hotel offers a bar, restaurant, and contemporary bedrooms with private bath/shower, TV, telephone, hairdryer and tea/coffee making facilities.
Located in the peaceful Surrey countryside within a charming 1930's Tudor style building, the 4-star Ramada Guildford Hotel offers a bar, restaurant, and contemporary bedrooms with private bath/shower, TV, telephone, hairdryer and tea/coffee making facilities.
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