Date/Time
Saturday, 25 January 2025 at 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Julian Orbach will give us a lecture on Grittleton – Wiltshire’s great Victorian estate at the Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institute, Queen Square Bath. BA1 2HN. Commencing 2.30pm in the Elwin Room.
There is no more extraordinary story in Wiltshire’s Victorian history than that of the Grittleton estate, created by Joseph Neeld with the enormous inheritance that fell to him in 1828 from his great-uncle, Philip Rundell, silversmith to George IV. Over less than three decades he built an unforgettable country house, with its stables, lodges and gardens, rebuilt several surrounding villages with farmhouses and cottages for his tenants, new schools and churches. Julian Orbach’s lecture will tell the story, illustrated with the buildings mostly designed by Neeld’s architect, James Thomson.
Biography: Julian Orbach
Julian Orbach is an architectural historian who revised Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England volumes for Wiltshire (2019) and Somerset South & West (2014) and is co-author with Timothy Mowl of Unbuilt Bath, 2023.
Price for the lecture – Members £12. ; Guests £16.00.
For booking use the link to Ticket Tailor [small booking fee applies]
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Getting there
Use the Park & Ride from: Newbridge, Odd Down and Lansdown all into the City centre and a 5-10 minute walk to Queen Square.
Local Parking: Parking in the Charlotte Street and the Waitrose Podium car parks nearby, also Avon Street and Southgate car parks – (charges apply).
Bath train station and a 15 minute walk to Queen Square