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Coronation Study Day Thursday 4th May Worsall Village Hall 11.00

We are very fortunate to welcome back Dr. Sally Dormer who gave us an excellent talk on the Wliton Diptych at Christmas. She kindly has agreed to present a Coronation-based Study Day for us. The first talk is one that she has created especially for us.


Dr. Sally Dormer has been the course tutor for the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Year Course at the Victoria and Albert Museum since its inception in 1993 and has lectured there since 1984. She is a specialist medieval art historian and lecturer who gained an MA in Medieval Art History and a PhD on medieval manuscript illumination at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. Sally has taught for the Art Fund, the Arts Society, Art Pursuits, Cox & Kings, Ciceroni, Swan Hellenic, and Gresham College.


11.00 God Save the King! Celebrating Coronations in the Middle Ages

12.30 Lunch (included)

14.00 Jewels in the Crown: Medieval Crowns and Circlets

3.30 Finish




Address: 3 Church Ln, Yarm TS15 9QB link: https://www.worsallvillagehall.co.uk/


Cost: £40 including lunch


Please pay and book your place by contacting Della Kerr

Tel: 01325 721458

9 Hurworth Road, Hurworth Place, Darlington, DL2 2DG


Please make cheques payable to South Durham & North Yorkshire Decorative & Fine Arts Society

Or by Bank Transfer to SD&NYDFAS

A/c: 00017726

Sort code: 40-52-40

If you pay by bank transfer, please be sure to let Della know.


For information on later coronations:


The disrupted coronation of George IV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_George_IV

The King loathed Caroline of Brunswick, his legal wife, and at the coronation she was shut out of the palace and the Abbey. Years later, when the king was informed that his greatest enemy was dead, he replied "By God, is she?" (the informant had actually been referring to Napoleon).


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