SOUTHAMPTON WEEKENDER
13/05/2022 – 15/05/2022
SOUTHAMPTON WEEKENDER
A weekend exploring Southampton’s inter-war commercial growth and civic pride, post-war plans, buildings by City Architect Leon Berger, the University, churches, housing, and recent developments in the city.
Led by Caroline Martin and Penny Laughton
Starts - Friday 13 May, 13.00 Southampton Art Gallery
Finishes - Sunday 15 May, 16.30 Southampton Central Train Station
Friday - focuses on E Berry Webber’s Civic Centre (1929-39; Grade II*) with an introduction to the Art Gallery and tour of the Centre and Sea City (Wilkinson Eyre, 2012). A group supper on Friday evening (included in the price).
Saturday – a morning walking tour of the commercial centre, including Debenhams (Healing and Overbury, 1959; under threat) and other retail, leisure and cultural buildings. City centre housing includes Wyndham Court, 1969; Grade II) and the post-war Holy Rood Estate. We spend the afternoon at the University’s elegantly landscaped Highfield campus, planned in the 1960s by Basil Spence and with recent buildings by Norman Foster and Rick Mather. Outdoor sculpture includes Puy de Dôme (1963, F E McWilliam; Grade II).
Sunday - travel by coach to housing by Herbert Collins (1920s/30s) and the Millbrook Estate, built from the 1950s under Leon Berger, as well as churches by N F Cachemaille-Day, Liam McCormick and W C Mangan. Time permitting, we will cross the Itchen Bridge to view Berger’s five tower blocks (1965-7) on Weston Shore.
Please note, Saturday involves walking all day, plus a bus to the University.
Caroline Martin (Chair, C20 South Region) and Penny Laughton led the Society’s 2019 Stuttgart weekend. Penny also organised the recent Clerkenwell event.
Members: £185. Non-Members: £210. Accommodation not included. Southampton offers a range of accommodation. The organisers are staying at the Premier Inn, 12-13 Cumberland Place, SO15 2WY
Numbers limited to 30 people.
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The Twentieth Century Society is a registered charity, no 1110244
Above: Wyndham Court, Lyons Israel Ellis, 1969. Photograph: Penny Laughton
The Twentieth Century Society is an IHBC (Institute of Historic Building conservation) recognised CPD provider.
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