Special meeting to consider the decorations at St Paul's Cathedral / Lamps and Fountains (Art Workers Guild), 1899
End Date: 5 May 1899
Type: Discussion
Description: 'A special meeting to discuss the decorations at St. Paul's Cathedral. At the ordinary meeting, Mr Drury read a paper on "Lamps" and the subject of lamps and fountains was fully discussed' (AWG annual report, 1899, p. 5).
Other meetings to discuss the decorations of St Paul's were held on 19 May and 2 June 1899; annual report for 1899 does not give details of agendas etc.
Policy: 'Founded in 1883, with the object of bringing into closer union the workers in various arts and crafts - architects, painters, designers of all kinds, sculptors and wood carvers, metal workers, goldsmiths, and many others - chiefly by evening meetings and discussions on different lines and methods in art. Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. The meetings are not open to the public. Candidates for election must be personally known to proposer and seconder, and be bona-fide workers in some art or craft' (Year's Art, 1899, p. 157).
Sources
Annual Programme Cards, 1884-1934
1899: notes only 'Lamps and Fountains' and not the special meeting.
Citing this record
'Special meeting to consider the decorations at St Paul\'s Cathedral / Lamps and Fountains (Art Workers Guild), 1899', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1214922356, accessed 03 Oct 2023]
