St Marylebone Lecture Series: Stories in Stone: History, Craft, and Conservation

This lecture will be a panel discussion with 3 speakers who have worked with St Marylebone on the recent conservation project. Each will share a different insight into St Marylebone’s impressive stonework, focusing on the historical, architectural, and technical details of its craftsmanship, and how the stonework of urban churches can be preserved. 

This talk will be interactive, with stonemasonry tools on display, and an exclusive insight into St Marylebone’s new tactile models. These models, created by students at the City and Guild School, represent different architectural features present in the church and allows you to experience the craftsmanship up-close.

Speakers: Victoria Perry, Tony Dyson (Donald Insall Associates), and Fintan Morrison (Sally Strachey Conservation)

Dr Victoria Perry, Practice Director, Donald Insall Associates 

Dr Victoria Perry is a historian, architect and Practice Director at Donald Insall Associates, a company of architects and historic building consultants, whose clients include The Crown Estate and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, The Place of Westminster as well as other prominent national and international institutions. 

Victoria is an external examiner on the MA in Historic Urban Environments at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She has a particular interest in the connections between historic buildings and Britain’s colonial past; her recent book A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape (drawn from an earlier PhD)  looks at the connections between plantation-owning families – including that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning – and the patronage of British design.   

Tony Dyson, Consultant Architect, Donald Insall Associates 

Tony specialises in the design of urban hard landscapes to create the architectural settings for memorial sculptures in Conservation Areas.  

Professional responsibilities have included major repair and conservation projects at Trafalgar Square, SW1; Somerset House, WC2; Lincoln’s Inn, WC2; Petworth House, West Sussex; Kew Palace, Richmond, Surrey, as well as providing advice and architectural services for sixteen memorial projects in conservation areas in central London, including the Battle of Britain Monument and the Korean War Memorial, Victoria Embankment, SW1; The Young Mozart, Orange Square, SW1; Raoul Wallenberg, Great Cumberland Place, W1; Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, SW1 and The National Memorial to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the Mall, SW1 

Fintan Morrison, Stone Mason, Sally Strachey Historic Conservation 

Fintan Morrison is a Stone Mason and conservator from London, he is active amongst the SPAB and is a Kings foundation Alumni. He has worked across the country on Listed buildings and monuments and specialises in lime mortars/plasters, the replacement of decorative stonework and rebuilding of complex masonry.  

He works for Sally Strachey Historic Conservation who are multi award-winning specialists in the cleaning, repair & conservation of historic stonework, statuary, monuments & decorative surfaces who have worked on a wide range of churches, monuments and historic sites, providing a full service from conservation reports and surveys, through to execution on site by a highly-skilled team of consultants, masons, carvers and conservators. 

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The Art and Architecture of St Marylebone: Past and Present

This Spring, St. Marylebone’s Lecture Series will explore the art and architecture of the Parish Church, highlighting the craftsmanship of the past while celebrating our recent renovations. The lectures will tell St. Marylebone’s stories through art and offer different ways of viewing the space. We have an incredible range of historians, artists, and conservators, who will each share a different insight.  

Lectures:

Wednesday 3rd April: Art in the Apse with Sophie Hacker 

Wednesday 17th April: Stained Glass in the City with Alexandra Epps 

Wednesday 24th April: Benjamin West PRA and The Painting of the Holy Family with Dr Thomas Ardill (Museum of London) and Rebecca Gregg Conservation 

Wednesday 1st May: Stories in Stone: History, Craft, and Conservation with Victoria Perry and Tony Dyson (Donald Insall Associates) and Fintan Morrison (Sally Strachey Conservation)

Wednesday 29th May: Adapting Church Architecture for the Modern Landscape with Dr Kate Jordan (Westminster University) and Mark Hammond (Caroe Architecture)