Members' Evening

The Members' Evening is an opportunity for members to raise topics of interest, air architectural enthusiasms, or simply fly architectural kites. This year, the evening's topics were:

• Pam Wallhead talked about the restoration of the nineteenth-century stained glass windows in St Cuthbert's Chapel, Inner Farne, and the possibility that they were by the celebrated Tyneside manufacturer William Wailes;
• Angela Kellett talked about her ancestor Gualbert* Saunders, another nineteenth-century stained-glass manufacturer, who worked in close collaboration with architect William Burges on such buildings as Cardiff Castle. He was himself also an architect and furniture designer;
• and Richard Pears talked about the building of Sir Arthur Haselrig's house at Auckland Castle on the site of the demolished medieval chapel, and its fate under Bishop John Cosin.

*not a typo, but the supposedly Welsh spelling which he adopted.