How to read a country church – next lecture at The Arts Society – Pewsey Vale

The next lecture of The Arts Society – Pewsey Vale, will take place on Tuesday 3^rd February at 2.30pm in the bouverie Hall. Rev Dr Nicholas Henderson will speak about How to ‘Read’ an English Country Church – from the Tudors to the present.

It is possible to ’read’ the passage of time, movements, cultures and peoples in the architecture and art forms evident in many of our English country churches. After the Romana, the Saxons and the Normans, the sixteenth century marked the arrival of the epoch-changing Tudors and ultimately moved us into the establishment of a new Protestant England. Later the profoundly destructive changes of the seventeenth century Commonwealth era, were followed by restoration and liturgical change.

A graduate of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Nicholas Henderson trained for the Anglican ministry at Ripon Hall, Oxford. He was formerly Bishop-elect for the Diocese of Lake Malawi in Central Africa (2005-2009).  Nicholas has a particular interest in the period of the English Reformation and the associated cultural, architectural and social changes it has produced.

Doors open from 2.00pm and refreshments are available.  Visitors are always welcome – £7 on the door, card or cash