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Past Events
2025
19 May | AGM at Temple Newsam with lecture by Adam Toole on 'New Acquisitions and New Discoveries at Temple Newsam House' |
7 May | Study day to Bolling Hall and Oakwell Hall |
2024
11 December | Christmas Lunch at Goldsborough Hall |
9 - 12 September | Study tour to the Cotswolds |
25 July | Study Day to Haddon Hall and Renishaw Hall |
13 June | Study Day to Sutton Park and Shandy Hall |
16 May | Study Day to Bolsover Castle and Welbeck Abbey |
13 May | AGM and Lecture: David Jones, ‘It’s a small country! Chippendale’s Scottish Subscribers’ at Temple Newsam |
23 March | Visit to Brotherton Library, University of Leeds |
2023
13 December | Christmas Lunch at Goldsborough Hall |
17 - 20 September | Study Tour to Kent |
10 August | Study Day to Weston Hall and Farnley Hall |
5 July | Study Day to Boynton Hall and Scawby Hall |
14 June | Study Day to Aske Hall and Constable Burton Hall |
2022
4 July to 7 July | Four Day Study Tour based at Rutland Water |
16 June | Study Day to Birdsall House and Aldby Park |
23 May | AGM, Lunch and Lecture |
19 May | Study Day to Kiplin Hall and Langton Hall |
2021
7 to 10 September | Four Day Study Tour to Kent, visiting Grimsthorpe Castle, Penshurt, Chartwell, Knole, the Royal Pavillion, Igtham Mote and Scotney Castle |
12 August | Study Day to Tatton Park and Tabley House |
6 to 9 July | Four Day Study Tour to the Welsh Borders, visiting Combermere Abbey; Plas Newydd House; Chirk Castle; Erddig; Powis Castle; Brithdir Hall; Pitchford Hall and Hatton Grange |
10 June | Study Day at Everingham Park |
1 June | Annual Dinner with speaker Simon McCormack |
2020
21 October | Study Tour to Wentworth Woodhouse |
2019
12 December | Study Visit to Norton Conyers followed by Christmas Lunch at Goldsborough Hall |
21 October | York Furniture Discovery Day, Treasurer's House and Fairfax House, York |
13 May | Chippendale Society Special General Meeting, Annual General Meeting and Lecture (New Perspectives on Wright and Elwick of Wakefield: Chippendale's Yorkshire Contemporaries by Andrew Cox-Whittaker - Followed by a selected tour of Temple Newsam) |
1 May | Brockfield Hall and Carlton Towers Study Day |
2018
13 December | Christmas Lunch and visit to the Robert Thompson / Mouseman workshop, showroom and visitor centre |
17 October | Autumn Study Day, Visit to Cannon Hall, Barnsley and Cusworth Hall, Doncaster |
4 - 6 September | Study Tour to Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire And Essex, visiting Althorp, Wimpole Hall, Anglesey Abbey and Audley End |
24 – 27 July | A Three Night Summer Study Visit to Dumfries House, Mount Stuart, Drumlanrig Castle and Hutton-in-the Forest |
5 June | Annual Dinner |
21 May | A Spring Study Visit to Scampston Hall and Burton Agnes Hall |
12 May | Annual General Meeting of the Society |
2017
20 December | Visit to Goldsborough Hall and Church and Festive Lunch |
25 October | Jack Metcalf 'Chippendale Unstuck' Lecture at The Grove Centre Horsforth, Leeds |
18 - 19 July | Holker Hall, Cumbria and Leighton Hall, Lancashire |
6 June | Annual Dinner at Otley Golf Club |
11 May | Burton Constable and Wessand Hall |
8 May | Annual General Meeting + Lecture by Judith Goodison 'Thomas Chippendale junior - Out from the shadow' |
2016
13 December | Christmas Event / Visit to Ribston Hall |
27 - 28 September | Visit to Gorhambury House and Hatfield House |
17 - 21 July | Visit to West Sussex including: Goodwood, Firle, Petworth, Hinton Ampner, Parham and Uppark |
7 June | 54th Annual Dinner: Guest speaker Hannah Phillips, Director of Fairfax House, York |
10 May | Visit to Lyme Park |
30 April | AGM and lecture by Lucy Wood |
2015
7 December | Visit to Bramham Park followed by Christmas lunch |
19 October | Visit to Knowsley Hall- Review in Newsletter 134, January 2016 |
20 August | Raby Castle and Rokeby Park |
14 - 16 July | Three Day Visit to Oxfordshire and Warwickshire including Ragley Hall, Ditchley Park and Rousham Park |
2 June | Annual Dinner: Speaker Dr Adam Bowett, new Chairman of The Chippendale Society |
7 May | Visit to Levens Hall and Sizergh Castle, Cumbria. |
9 April | Visit to the Workshops of T L Phelps Fine Furniture Restoration – Review in Newsletter 131, May 2015. |
2014
10 December | Christmas Event: Visit to Farnley Hall, followed by lunch |
23 - 24 September | Visit to Milton Park and Deene Park, Northamptonshire |
20 August | Raby Castle and Rokeby Park |
29 July | Visit to Stonyhurst and Browsholme, Lancashire |
28 June | Visit to Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire. |
3 June | Annual Dinner: Speaker Rodney Tennant Esq |