• MEETING - Wednesday 18 February 2009
    Launce Gribbin: FROM GOTHIC REVIVAL TO INTERNATIONAL RAIL TERMINUS The story of St Pancras


    Artist's impression of St Pancras Station concourse St Pancras Station reopened in November 2007 as the terminal of the new fast continental railway. This lecture will look at its beginnings as a grand terminal in the Gothic Revival style, the engineering brilliance of the ground breaking train shed and the travelling public of the time.

    Suggested reading:
    St Pancras Station: Jack Simmons (Allen & Unwin 1968, reissued 2003)
    St Pancras Station: Simon Bradley (Profile Books 2007)

    Lecturer:
    Launce Gribbin had early success as a professional painter. After studying Art History at the Courtauld institute he worked at the V&A and the London College of Printing and then as tutor to Sotheby’s Educational Studies. He lectures on a variety of topics which include:
    Classical Antiquity; Hadrian; Ancient St Albans
    Henry VIII and the Arts
    Italian/French Renaissance Arts; Michelangelo
    Rodin, Palladio; Inigo Jones; Grinling Gibbons
    Hampton Court; St Pauls; Greenwich Royal Naval College
    Chiswick House; Strawberry Hill; Osterley Park House