| 14th Oct, 2025 Online event |
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On the 1st of December 1842, a young clergyman was killed by a falling vault at Benjamin Ferrey's new church in East Grafton. It has been suggested that this collapse in turn led to a greater stylistic collapse: that of the Romanesque Revival itself. Ferrey, who as a boy had toured France with the Pugins, was one of the most enthusiastic practitioners of the Romanesque style during its short-lived revival in the 1840s. His churches at East Hyde, Melplash, and Morpeth rank among some of his most striking work and deserve to be better known. But did the collapse at East Grafton really lead to the death of that revival? With the aid of eyewitness accounts, this talk will examine the 'lamentable accident' at East Grafton in detail, seeking to discover who was really at fault and assessing what the long-term consequences of that tragedy were. |
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