Talk/Event

Well-known local personality Michael Maxwell Steer has a hidden secret. One of his forebears was a famous opera singer who married an earl. Kitty Stephens, whom William Hazlitt called ‘the sweetest voice on the Regency stage’. Kitty was the doyenne of Covent Garden between 1818- 1830, both as a singer, an actress, and a singing-actress; that is to say she could take on a wide range of roles, from works by Handel to Gay’s Beggars Opera, as well as straight acting roles opposit

Tuesday 14th October Anglo-Saxon buildings, dating back some 1000 years and more, are rare. Most buildings were constructed in wood and have long since disappeared. However, some churches particularly in the later period were built of stone and while few complete buildings survive,  a surprisingly large number of Anglo-Saxon features survive in later churches.  The talk will show what features the intrepid explorer should look for, and how to tell Saxon from later architectur