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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · 2d

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

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

book here: ecclsoc.org.uk/events/third...

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · 9d

Significant "Owen Jones" church reopens

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Sep 15

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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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.

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Aug 31

Book now!
Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral
Saturday, 4th October 2025
St James-the-Less, London SW1V 2PS
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@c20society.bsky.social

Buy tickets – EcclSoc Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral – St James-the-Less, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London

This year’s conference looks at the phenomenon of the on-going building and designation of new cathedrals in the twentieth cent...

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.
www.ecclsoc.org.uk/news/12-chur...

ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Aug 15

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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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…

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Aug 11

A couple of correspondents have identified this as St Mary, Usk, Monmouthshire.

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

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Mark Kirby @markkirby.bsky.social · Jul 26

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...

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Jul 25

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.)
ecclsoc.org.uk/news/annual-...
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@englishcathedrals.co.uk

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Jul 19

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.

ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Jul 18

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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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Jul 17

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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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Jul 16

AGM Annual Lecture now available online

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

www.ecclsoc.org.uk/news/agm-ann...

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Jul 8

Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral - Saturday, 4 October, 2025 - Abstract 1
The Rev Dr Allan Doig:
www.ecclsoc.org.uk/news/annual-...

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · Jun 20

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.

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Jun 23

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.
www.ecclsoc.org.uk/events/annua...

Annual Conference: The Twentieth-Century Cathedral | The Ecclesiological Society

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · Jun 16

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.

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · Jun 9

In the June edition of the FoFC Magazine, members will find a 20% discount code for Olsberg’s book. Then, in the December edition, there will be a detailed review of the publication.

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Mark Kirby @markkirby.bsky.social · Jun 9

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.

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · Jun 3

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".
www.ecclsoc.org.uk/news/gavin-s...

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · May 26

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): [email protected] or
Nicola Lowe (reviews editor): [email protected]

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · May 16

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”.
www.ecclsoc.org.uk/events/agm-a...

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ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · May 13

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.
www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publica...

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...

www.victoriansociety.org.uk

ecclsoc.bsky.social @ecclsoc.bsky.social · May 12

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.
www.victoriansociety.org.uk/shop/publica...

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

www.victoriansociety.org.uk

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