Sir Roy Strong CH (5)
A very nice blog on the Warburg’s website about Roy Strong’s time there as a postgraduate student (although it’s worth remembering that for most of his time, the Warburg was still in South Kensington, only moving to Bloomsbury in 1958). I’ve read the relevant chapter in his autobiography before, but it somehow reads differently as…
Tyneham
Although I read Patrick Wright’s The Village That Died for England when it first came out in 1995, I have never been to Tyneham, nor the valley in which it sits. I was not prepared for the beauty of the view from the top of the hill overlooking Tyneham – a scene of field and…
St. George’s, Portland
We went to the Isle of Portland yesterday, source of Portland stone, including the church of St. George’s, built on an ambitious scale in the late 1750s, consecrated in 1764, an unusual moment for church building, designed and constructed by Thomas Gilbert, whose grandfather supplied much of the stone for St. Paul’s Cathedral. The tower…
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