Chippendale chair, Burton Constable Hall

  Courtesy of the Burton Constable Foundation

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