LECTURE: ANGLO-SAXON & NORMAN ENGLAND – ARCHITECTURE & CULTURAL CHANGE

The next meeting of

The Arts Society Kennet and Swindon 

will take place promptly at 10.55 on Monday, June 18

at the Ellendune Centre, Wroughton.  

Coffee will be served from 10.00am.

Visitors are always very welcome:

The Lecture: Anglo-Saxon & Norman England

– architecture & cultural change

Anglo-Saxon England is the least studied and the least understood era in England’s long history.

The crushing defeat of King Harold at the battle of Hastings heralded a period of cultural and political change

which all but eliminated the sophisticated Anglo-Saxon culture. 

This lecture explores the great upheavals in society and community as reflected in the architectural & cultural changes

that swept through England after the Norman Conquest.

You will discover there is more of Anglo-Saxon England to learn about  than you had thought!

The Lecturer: Nicholas Henderson

is a Cambridge graduate who then trained for the Anglican ministry at Ripon Hall, Oxford.

He worked on the staff of Coventry Cathedral and was bishop-elect of the

Anglican Diocese of Lake Malawi in central Africa.

He has lived and worked in Africa as well as Japan, Brazil and the UK. 

He has lectured on a wide variety of historical  and architectural topics –

of which the transition period between Saxon and Norman England is but one.