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by John Betjeman


  1 The following pieces were written for the wireless and were performed on the Western Region, the happiest of all broadcasting places. They were written to read aloud, a sort of prose lyric to convey the picture and atmosphere of a place. They passed the test of Mr. Rupert Annand their producer, who altered with unerring ear the awkward-sounding sentences.

  INDEX

  Index

  A

  Aberdeen, Scottish architecture and classic architects, 1; granite, 1;

  three periods of architecture, 1

  Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts, 1, 2

  Adam brothers, The, 1

  Adam, Robert, 1

  Aidé, Hamilton, 1

  Albert, Prince, 1; Memorial, 1, 2, 3

  Aldersgate Station, 1

  Alexandra Palace Exhibition, 1873, 1

  Allingham, William, 1

  All Saints’ Church, Basingstoke, 1; Margaret Street, London, 1, 2;

  Notting Hill, 1;

  Tooting, 1

  Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, 1

  Annand, Rupert, 1 n.

  Architecture, Scottish and classic architects 1; author’s preference for first quarter of 19th century, 1;

  antiquarian prejudice and domestic, 1, 2;

  ecclesiastical, 1;

  monumental, 1, 2;

  planning, 1, 2;

  U.S.S.R., 1;

  jazz modern reaction, 1;

  champions of antiquity, experts, 1;

  research worker, 1;

  authority given to antiquarian research, 1;

  position of modern architect, 1;

  entertainment buildings, impermanence of, 1, 2;

  “battle of the styles,” 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Georgian, 1, 2, 3;

  comparison between domestic of 18th and 19th centuries, 1;

  classic survival, 1, 2;

  Gothic revival, 1, 2, 3;

  “hards,” 1, 2;

  Ruskinian Gothic, 1;

  see also Boggleton, Nonconformist and Victorian

  Art Nouveau movement, 1 & n., 2, 3

  Arts and Crafts, see Morris Movement

  Ashbee, 1

  Ashmolean, Oxford, 1

  Assembly Rooms, Cheltenham, 1

  Assize Courts, Manchester, 1

  B

  Bailey’s New Hand–Book for Cheltenham, 1 & n.

  Baillie Scott, H., 1, 2, 3, 4

  Baker Street Station, 1

  Balliol College, Oxford, 1

  Balmoral, 1

  Bank of England, 1

  Baptist chapel architecture, 1, 2, 3

  Barlow, P. W., 1, 2

  Barry, Sir Charles, 1, 2, 3

  Barry, Edward Middleton, 1, 2

  Battersea Power Station, 1

  Bedford Park Garden Suburb, Hostelry, 1; Shaw’s church at, 1

  Belgelley Chapel, Pembrokeshire, 1

  Bentley, J. F., 1, 2

  Billings, T., 1

  Bishopstone, 1

  Blacking, R., 1

  Blackwall Station, 1

  Blaenconin Chapel, Wales, 1

  Blisland village, 1; St. Protus and St. Hyacinth, 1

  Blockley Chapel, Gloucestershire, 1

  Blomfield, Sir Reginald, 1, 2

  Bodleian, New, Oxford, 1

  Bodley, G. F., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Bodmin Moor, 1

  Boggleton, architecture of (1837), 1; (1867), 1;

  (1907), 1;

  reaction from machines, 1;

  Morris Movement, 1;

  (1937), 1

  Bournemouth, layout and larger villas, 1; churches, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Bradfield Church, Berks, 1

  Bradshaw’s Railway Companion for 1841 1

  Brandon brothers, The, 1, 2

  Brandon, Raphael, 1, 2

  Bricklayers’ Arms Station, 1

  Brisbane Cathedral, 1

  Bristol Cathedral Restoration, 1

  B.B.C. Western Region, 1 n.

  Broad Street Station, 1

  Broad Town Chapel, Wilts, 1

  Brodrick, Cuthbert, 1, 2, 3

  Brooks, James, 1, 2, 3

  Brown, “Capability,” 1

  Brown, T. E., 1

  Brunel, 1

  Burges, William, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 1

  Butler and Sons of Leeds, 1

  Butterfield, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  C

  Caius College, Cambridge, 1

  Camden Society, 1

  Campbell, Colin, 1

  Cannon Street Station, 1, 2, 3

  Cardiff Castle, Burges’ drawings for, 1

  Carlisle Cathedral, 1

  Caröe, 1

  Carpenter, R. C. and R. H., 1, 2

  Carrington, N. T., My Native Village, 1 & n.

  Castletown, Isle of Man, 1

  Castle Mona Hotel, Isle of Man, 1

  Catholic Apostolic Church, Gordon Square, 1, 2, 3, 4; Paddington, 1, 2

  Chambers, Sir W., 1

  Champneys, Basil, 1

  Charing Cross Station and Hotel, 1, 2

  Charing Cross Underground entrance, 1

  Charlemont, Lord, Charlemont House, Dublin, 1

  Cheltenham, Ackermann’s Repository, 1, 2; George III and, 1;

  College, 1;

  architecture, 1;

  Regency Society, 1 n., 2;

  Bailey’s New Hand–Book for, 1 & n.;

  Ladies’ College, 1

  Chesil Bank, 1

  Christ Church, Cheltenham, 1; Streatham Hill, 1

  Church crawling, pleasure of, 1, 2

  Church of the Annunciation, Bournemouth, 1

  Churches, fairs and entertainments cast offs of, 1; centre of medieval life, 1;

  tampering of last 90 years, 1

  Churchgate Street Chapel, Bury St. Edmunds, 1, 2

  Cinemas, architecture of, 1, 2

  Circus Church, Portsmouth, 1 n.

  Civic Hall, Leeds, 1, 2

  Clark, Sir Kenneth, 1

  Clark, Somers, 1

  Clarke, Charles W., 1

  Clevedon, 1; architecture, 1

  Clifden, Lord, 1

  Cockerell, C. R., 1, 2

  Coleridge, 1

  Coleshill House, Berks, 1

  Collcutt, Thomas, 1

  Comper, J. N., 1, 2, 3 & n., 4

  Comper, Sir Ninian, 1, 2, 3

  Convent of Sisters of Bethany, Bournemouth, 1

  Congregational church architecture, 1, 2

  Cornish rock pools, 1

  Cote Baptist Chapel, Bampton, 1, 2

  Courtauld Institute, The, 1

  Cowley Fathers’ Church, Oxford, 1

  Cowper, William, The Task, 1

  Craftsmanship, tradition of early 19th century, 1; supplanted by machine, 1

  Cromwell, Oliver, 1

  Crossland, W. H., 1, 2

  Crystal Palace, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Cubitt, Joseph, 1, 2

  Cubitt, Lewis, 1

  Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxford, 1

  Curzon Cinema, London, 1

  D

  Dale, T. Lawrence, 1

  Dance the younger, 1

  Deane, 1

  Deshon, F. C., 1

  Dickens, Charles, 1

  Donhead Methodist Chapel, Wilts, 1

  Doré, Gustav, London, 1, 2

  Douglas, Isle of Man, 1

  Drury, Alfred, 1

  E

  Earl’s Court Exhibition, 1912, 1

  Eastern Union Railway Terminus, 1

  Eden, F. C., 1, 2

  Edis, Colonel, 1

  Ellis, Hamilton, The Trains we Loved, 1

  Elmes, H. L., 1, 2

  Elton, Charles Abraham, 1

  Etchells, Frederick, F.R.I.B.A., 1 n., 2

  Euston Great Hall and Station, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Examination Schools, Oxford, 1

  F

  Fairbairn, Sir Peter, 1

  Farringford, Isle of Wight, 1

  Ferguson, 1

  Ferrey, Benjamin, 1

>   Fitzjohn’s Avenue, Hampstead, 1

  Forbes, J. B., 1

  Ford, H. W., 1

  Foster, Birket, 1

  Foulston, 1

  Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 1

  Friars Street Chapel, Ipswich, 1

  Fulford, 1

  G

  Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 1

  Galsworthy, John, 1

  Gaskell, Mrs., The Heart of John Middleton, 1& n.

  George, Ernest, 1

  George III, 1, 2

  George V, 1

  Georgian architecture, 1, 2; Weymouth, 1;

  Sidmouth, 1

  Gibbons, J. Harold, 1, 2

  Gibbs, James, 1

  Gibson, John, 1, 2, 3

  Glasgow Exhibition, 1

  Godwin, 1

  Goldsmith’s Hall, London, 1

  Goodhart-Rendel, Mr., 1

  Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 1

  Gothic revival, see Architecture

  Gower Street Hospital, London, 1

  Great Central Hotel, Marylebone Road, 1

  Great Coxwell Barn, 1

  Great Exhibition, 1851, 1, 2

  Great Junction Railway, 1

  Great Yarmouth Methodist Chapel, 1

  Green, Benjamin, 1

  Greenham Lodge, Newbury, 1

  Greenwich Hospital, 1

  Griggs, F. L., 1

  H

  Hallam, Arthur, 1

  Hamburg Rathaus, 1

  Hardwick, Philip, 1, 2

  Hardwick, Philip Charles, 1

  Hardy, Thomas, Havenpool Town, 1

  Hare, Henry T., 1

  Harris, Vincent, 1

  Harrow School Speech Room, 1, 2

  Harrow Station, 1

  Hawker, Parson, 1, 2, 3

  Hayling Island, 1; three kinds of life on, 1

  Hayward, John, 1

  Headrow, Leeds, 1, 2

  Highworth, 1

  Hillary, Sir William, 1

  His Majesty’s Theatre, London, 1

  Hobby Horse, Padstow, 1

  Hocken, Parson, 1

  Holborn Restaurant, London, 1

  Holden, Charles H., 1, 2, 3

  Holland, Henry, 1

  Holy Angels’ Church, Hoar Cross, 1, 2

  Holy Redeemer Church, Clerkenwell, 1, 2

  Holy Trinity Church, Kensington Gore, 1, 2; Sloane Street, 1, 2

  Horsley, Gerald, 1

  Houses, portable, 1

  Hurdis, Rev. James, D.D., 1

  I

  Ilfracombe, 1; Museum, 1

  Illustrated London News, 1

  Inglesham Church, 1

  J

  Jackson, Thomas G., 1, 2

  Jearrad, R. W. and C., 1

  Jones, Owen, 1

  Jordans Meeting House, 1

  Josa, Parson, 1

  K

  Keble College Chapel, Oxford, 1, 2

  Kelmscott Press, 1

  Kempe, 1

  Kilgelley Chapel, Pembrokeshire, 1

  King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen, 1

  King’s Cross Station, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Kunzle’s, 1

  L

  Lady Huntingdon Chapel, Worcester, 1

  Lancing College Chapel, 1, 2

  Law Courts, London, 1, 2

  Leeds (1933), “a Victorian city,” 1; architecture, 1

  Legbourne Chapel, 1

  Leighton, Lord, 1

  “Leys Wood,” Sussex, 1

  Lethaby, Professor W. R., 1, 2, 3

  Lichfield Cathedral, 1

  Lincoln Cathedral, 1

  Little Stanmore Church, 1

  Liverpool Street Station and Hotel, 1, 2

  Loch, Governor, 1

  Lodge, T. A., 1

  London Bridge Station, 1

  London railway stations, personality of, 1

  Louth Methodist Chapel, 1; Congregational Church, 1

  L.C.C., 1, 2

  Longfellow, Lady Wentworth, 1

  Looe, East and West, 1

  Lutyens, Sir Edwin, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Lyndhurst, 1; Swainmote, 1;

  Parish Church, 1

  M

  Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Marshall, 1

  Mackintosh, C. R., 1 & n., 2, 3, 4

  Magdalen College Tower, Oxford, 1

  Man, Isle of, history, 1; Tynwald Day, 1;

  the visitors, 1

  Mansfield College, Oxford, 1

  Marischal College, Aberdeen, 1

  Market Harborough Chapel, 1

  Market, New, Aberdeen, 1

  Mary, Queen, 1

  Marylebone Station, 1, 2

  Mary Street Chapel, Taunton, 1

  Masters, W. A., 1

  Maufe, Mr., 1

  Mawgan - in - Meneage Methodist Chapel, 1

  Meadow Buildings, Christ Church, Oxford, 1

  Medievalists, The, 1, 2

  Melcombe Regis, 1

  Methodist Chapel architecture, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Micklethwaite, 1, 2

  Midlands Goods Station, 1

  Mildenhall Church, near Marlborough, 1

  Mill Hill Unitarian Chapel, Leeds, 1

  Mill, John Stuart, 1

  Ministry of Town and Country Planing, 1 n.

  Moore, Temple, 1, 2

  Morris dancing, Bampton-in-the-Bush, 1

  Morris Movement, 1, 2

  Morris, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Murphy, Prebendary, 1

  Music-halls, 1

  N

  Nash, 1

  National Provincial Bank, Sunderland, 1

  Neve, W. West, 1

  New Schools, Eton, 1

  New Scotland Yard, 1

  Newtown, Isle of Wight, 1

  New Zealand Chambers, Leadenhall Street, 1, 2

  Nicholson, Sir Charles, 1

  Nimmo, 1

  Nine Elms Station, 1

  Nonconformist architecture, earliest places of worship, 1; of Enthusiasm, 1;

  “most interesting phase,” 1;

  “late Gothic freely treated,” 1;

  see also Baptist, Congregational, Methodist,

  Quaker, Plymouth Brethren, Unitarian and Wales

  Nuffield, Lord, 1

  O

  Oatley, Sir George, 1, 2

  Octagon Chapel, Norwich, 1

  Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square, 1

  Olney, 1

  Olympia Exhibition, 1886, 1

  Ordish, 1

  Osborne, 1

  Osterley, 1

  Oundle Chapel, 1

  Oxford Movement, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  P

  Paddington Station and Hotel, 1, 2, 3

  Padstow, 1; approach to, 1;

  Doom Bar, 1;

  Hobby Horse, 1

  Palace Theatre, London (Royal English Opera House), 1

  Paley, E. G., 1

  Palgrave on the Albert Memorial, 1

  Palmerston, Lord, 1, 2

  Palumbo, Rudolf, 1

  Papworth, J. B., 1

  Park, Cheltenham, 1

  Parker’s Glossary of Gothic Architecture, 1

  Parliament, Houses of, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Paxton, 1

  Pearson, J. L., 1, 2, 3, 4

  Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1

  Pennethorne, 1

  Perth Cathedral, 1

  Phipps, Charles John, 1

  Pilkington, 1

  Pinch, John, 1

  Pite, Beresford, Soane Medallion for design for West End Club, 1, 2

  Plymouth Brethren architecture, 1

  Pollen, 1

  Ponsonby, Canon, 1

  Port Isaac, 1; “The Birdcage,” 1;

  Harvest Festival, 1

  Port Quin, 1

  Powys, A. R., 1

  Pre–Raphaelites, The, 1

  Presbyterian Kirk steeple, Queen’s Cross, Aberdeen, 1

  Prudential Insurance Building, Holborn, 1

  Pugin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Pump Room, Cheltenham, 1

  Purnells of Rugby, 1

  Pusey House, Oxford, 1, 2

 
; Q

  Quaker Meeting Houses architecture, 1, 2

  Queen’s Hotel, Cheltenham, 1

  R

  Redfern, Harry, 1

  Regency Society, Cheltenham, 1 n., 2

  Regent Street, London, 1

  Rennies, The, 1

  Riley, Athelstan, 1

  Robins, Denise, 1

  Robson, E. R., 1

  Rogers, Harold S., 1

  Rolfe, Clapton C., 1

  Roman Catholic Cathedral, Birmingham, 1

  Romantic School of Literature, 1

  Roscarrock, Nicholas, 1

  Roslyn Chapel, 1

  Ross, Canon, 1

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1

  Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, review of publication of, 1

 

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