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LECTURE: ANGLO-SAXON & NORMAN ENGLAND – ARCHITECTURE & CULTURAL CHANGE
18 June 2018 @ 10:55 am - 11:59 pm
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.