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Bathscape Walking Festival walks with Dr Amy Frost
(Bathscape Walking Festival 2024) Lansdown Cemetery and Beckford’s Landscape: A walk with Dr Amy Frost
Saturday 7 September 9.30-10.30am
Discover how Lansdown Cemetery was formed from the original garden to Beckford’s Tower and how William Beckford’s power and privilege can often disturb the peace of this landscape. Dr Amy Frost from Bath Preservation Trust leads the walk round the Cemetery.
Part of the Bathscape Walking Festival 2024.
(Bathscape Walking Festival 2024) Widcombe and Southcot Burial Ground: A walk with Dr Amy Frost
Saturday 7 September 11.30 – 12.30
A short walk with Dr Amy Frost looking at the demolitions and changes to Widcombe during the 1960s-70s Sack of Bath including a visit to Southcot Burial Ground (open for Heritage Open Days).
Part of the Bathscape Walking Festival 2024.
BRLSI talks with Dr Amy Frost
Andrea Casali & his work for Alderman Beckford: a talk by Dr Amy Frost
Location: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN
Date: Thu 12 September, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Join us for our FREE Heritage Open Days talk!
Alderman William Beckford was a key patron of the eighteenth century Italian painter Andrea Casali, and filled his mansion at Fonthill in Wiltshire with the artist’s work, funded through the profits of transatlantic slavery. Beckford’s son, William, builder of the tower above Bath, demolished the house and sold the paintings. At least eleven of them were upcycled to the Bath area, including four donated to BRLSI in 1824 and five which eventually graced Dyrham Park.
Dr Amy Frost, Bath Preservation Trust’s Senior Curator and an expert on the Beckfords, sheds light on Casali’s work for Alderman Beckford and explores the circuitous routes to our area that the surviving paintings took.