George Edmund Street Bicentenary Symposium - Day 1

George Edmund Street Bicentenary Symposium - Day 1

George Edmund Street, one of the greatest Victorian architects, is most famous for building London's Royal Courts of Justice. St James the Less, his first London church, is an architectural gem in Pimlico. After 160 years, the coloured brick and creamy stone are dull from smog and pollution. The Friends of St James the Less Restoration Committee are keen to return the church to its original splendour and aim to raise the funds needed through these Bicentenary events.

Symposium - Day 1

Richard Peats (Historic England):
George Edmund Street and church restoration – destructively overconfident or a reverential conservationist?

Michael Hall (independent scholar, formerly editor of The Burlington):
Stern and high: G. E. Street, Philip Webb and William Morris

David Brownlee (Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania):
A Building Powered by Fusion: George Edmund Street and the Royal Courts of Justice

The doors will open at 09.30 and coffee/tea and biscuits will be served then and at the
mid-morning break.

The session will end at 12.45

Tickets £30