Bucklers' Yorkshire Buildings

Yorkshire’s architectural heritage is arguably the finest in Britain. From the Middle Ages it included Europe’s largest medieval cathedral at York, England’s most complete monasteries at Kirkstall and Fountains abbeys, its collegiate churches of Beverley, Howden and Ripon, and great Norman keeps at Richmond, Conisbrough and York’s Clifford’s Tower. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, most major new buildings were domestic. Heath Old Hall, Burton Agnes and Pontefract New Hall were built to sophisticated Elizabethan and Jacobean designs, followed by smaller, provincial halls of the seventeenth century. From about 1700, some of Britain’s finest great houses such as Wentworth Woodhouse and Castle Howard were constructed in Yorkshire.

This great architecture attracted the attention of John Buckler and his son John Chessell Buckler, contemporaries of J.M.W. Turner. Between 1804 and 1820 they made a remarkably comprehensive graphic record of hundreds of the county’s finest and most interesting buildings, many now lost and forgotten, as part of a body of work that took them across England and Wales.

The talk is free to attend and open to anyone with an interest in the subject. It will be held in the Kingswood Suite on the first floor of the Town Hall (lift available). We hope to have a supply of the books available on the night to purchase.

A live stream will also be available for anyone unable to attend in person.

Timings

Thursday 17 September:

19:30 start

Location & directions

Room 3, Town Hall, Wood Street, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 2HQ

Contact on day:

Kevin Trickett

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:

Pre-booking required

Booking conditions:

Please book via our Eventbrite page - see link below. For anyone unable to attend the talk in person, a live stream will be available via Zoom. When booking your ticket(s) , please make you to select either the 'in person' ticket if you are planning to come along to the Town Hall or the 'live stream' ticket if you are going to watch on line.

Booking website:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bucklers-yorkshire-buildings-tickets-1997146240166?aff=oddtdtcreator

Booking opens:

07 Aug 2026 12:00 AM

Booking closes:

17 Sep 2026 07:00 PM

Accessibility details

The talk will be in the Kingswood Suite on the first floor of the Town Hall. A lift is available.

Additional information

Car parking available nearby. Most Council-operated car parks are free after 6pm, but do check dispay boards.

Max number of people:

100

Estimated duration:

1 hour(s) 30 minute(s)

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