Friends of the Sussex Historic Churches Trust in association with the
Sussex Archaeological Society
S TUDY DAY AT M ICHELHAM P RIORY :
THE MONASTIC REMAINS AND THE S OCIETY ’ S COLLECTIONS OF DRAWINGS AND
WATERCOLOURS on Sunday 18 May 2014 , 11.00am–4.00pm
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Cost: £19 (includes coffee on arrival, ploughman’s lunch and afternoon tea, but NOT the price of admission to the Priory).
Admission charges: Sussex Archaeological Society and Historic Houses Association members and Friends of Michelham Priory free; English Heritage members half price; non-members full price £7.80, seniors £6.80, disabled/carers £4.20. ( Please note that the admission charge is to be paid at the gatehouse on arrival. Members of
SAS/HHA/FOMP/EH should present their membership cards).
To book please send form below with a cheque made out to Sussex Past to Lorna
Gartside, SAS Membership Secretary, Bull House, 92 High Street, LEWES BN7
1XH, or book online at http://sussexpast.co.uk/event/mpstudyday
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Outline programme
11.00am Assemble in the Great Barn for tea/ coffee and Introduction
11.30am
1.00pm
2.00pm
3.30pm
Group tours of monastic remains
Lunch
Seminar
Tea and disperse
Content
Following coffee on arrival there will be detailed tours of the Priory site, with some emphasis on the monastic remains both above and below ground, including the surviving architectural features. In the afternoon Judy Brent will outline the formation and scope of the Society's Lambert, Sharpe, Saunders and Quartermain collections and Dr David Parsons will discuss the value of pictorial evidence for historians of church architecture in Sussex. Slides will be shown and some original topographical drawings will be on display. Copies of other historic illustrations will also be available.
The Sharpe Collection of drawings and watercolours of Sussex churches from around
1800 is a valuable resource curated by the Society at Michelham. This occasion offers a rare opportunity to see many of the illustrations together and at first hand. The selection is based on churches visited by the Friends over the last decade.
The Illustration on this Leaflet is an example of the kind of material to be discussed. It was drawn by S H Grimm and shows the remains of Michelham Priory as he saw them in 1784. This drawing is not part of the Sussex Archaeological Society’s collections.