La Société Guernesiaise Historic Buildings Section


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Section Secretary
John McCormack

Contact
720303

Please note: it is regretted that the Historic Buildings Section are presently unable to receive or respond to e-mail requests. All enquiries should be sent by post to the address below.

Sections

Historic Buildings

The aims of the section are as follows:

To understand and study all our built heritage, parish churches, castles, and houses, but in particular the vernacular buildings of the period 1100-1800;
To examine their siting, methods of construction and plan-forms, relating these to their social context and noting alterations and developments over the centuries;
To record all such buildings as opportunity allows, especially those that are under threat from redevelopment or decay; those where current building work allows features of historic interest to be temporarily exposed to view; or those where access to the public is not normally possible;
To provide house-owners and others who have an interest in and responsibility for ancient buildings with as great a knowledge as possible of the historic structure that concerns them, so that decisions affecting it may be made from an informed basis of historical facts;
Where appropriate, to become involved in campaigns to prevent unnecessary loss of our interesting houses and other buildings.

Kings Mills Farm

PROGRAMME

All Winter, Spring and Autumn meetings begin at 7.30p.m. and will be held at Candie Museum Lecture Theatre or in the adjoining Section Room. New members or visitors are always welcome to attend, but should contact John McCormack, the Section’s Secretary, on 720303, beforehand, in case of alterations or final instructions. An annual charge of £10 is due at the beginning of the year, payable by those who expect to attend regularly.

Historic Buildings -French Trip - June 6th to 9th

Thursday 6th June to Sunday 9th June

French trip. We shall be arranging a weekend around the Granville area of Normandy and to Les Iles Chausey. If you are interested in receiving more information as it becomes available, please let the Secretary know by e-mail as soon as possible. Numbers will be limited to 25, and priority will be given to members of this group who register in good time, after which it will be opened for other friends and colleagues by invitation only. Please specify if you would be interested in visiting Chausey only. New members are always very welcome to attend, but should contact John McCormack (tel. 720303; e-mail mrjam@cwgsy.net) beforehand in case of alterations or final instructions. Those attending regularly should ensure that they are already members of La Société, and are asked for an annual payment to the Section of £10 at the beginning of each year: this covers petty cash items

Historic Buildings - Outing

Saturday 13th July 14:30

Split-level houses. Visits to houses at Les Issues and elsewhere. Details later. New members are always very welcome to attend, but should contact John McCormack (tel. 720303; e-mail mrjam@cwgsy.net) beforehand in case of alterations or final instructions. Those attending regularly should ensure that they are already members of La Société, and are asked for an annual payment to the Section of £10 at the beginning of each year: this covers petty cash items

Historic Buildings - Outing

Saturday 10th August 14:30

A visit to Les Annevilles Manor and its garenne. This house includes much of what was built between 1248 and 1265 by Sir William de Chesney, enigmatic though much of it is; and the only moated rabbit warren in the Channel Islands. Meet at the Manor. Adequate parking at both sites.

Historic Buildings - Talk by John McCormack

Saturday 19th October 19:30

Reviewing work on mounting-blocks and learning from this year’s French trip. Frossard Theatre, Candie. New members are always very welcome to attend, but should contact John McCormack (tel. 720303; e-mail mrjam@cwgsy.net) beforehand in case of alterations or final instructions. Those attending regularly should ensure that they are already members of La Société, and are asked for an annual payment to the Section of £10 at the beginning of each year: this covers petty cash items

Historic Buildings - Chimney Pots - a talk by John McCormack

Saturday 9th November 19:30

Dating our chimney pots: an attempt to work out when and from whence they were imported.

Historic Buildings - The Peasant House of the 12th and 13th Centuries - Talk by John McCormack

Saturday 23rd November 19:30

The peasant house of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. A review of the earliest fabric so far detected in Guernsey and Jersey houses and a discussion as to the reasons why grander buildings were possible from the fourteenth century onwards.Frossard Theatre, Candie. New members are always very welcome to attend, but should contact John McCormack (tel. 720303; e-mail mrjam@cwgsy.net) beforehand in case of alterations or final instructions. Those attending regularly should ensure that they are already members of La Société, and are asked for an annual payment to the Section of £10 at the beginning of each year: this covers petty cash items

Historic Buildings - Mortars and Stonework: Dating by Geology - Talk by John McCormack

Saturday 14th December 19:30

Frossard Theatre, Candie. New members are always very welcome to attend, but should contact John McCormack (tel. 720303; e-mail mrjam@cwgsy.net) beforehand in case of alterations or final instructions. Those attending regularly should ensure that they are already members of La Société, and are asked for an annual payment to the Section of £10 at the beginning of each year: this covers petty cash items

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For further information about the section:-

a) Bailiwick residents may telephone the Section Secretary.

b) All other enquiries should be sent by post to:-

The Secretary
Historic Buildings Section
La Société Guernesiaise
Candie Gardens
St Peter Port
Guernsey
GY1 1UG