By Dan Walsh
Busy week of heritage celebration across Co. Wexford in the coming days, but booking is open for the Heritage Week Lecture and Garden Tour at Monksgrange, near Rathnure, Enniscorthy, which takes place on Saturday, August 24th from 2-5pm.
The programme is as follows;
2pm; Doors open
2.30pm; Jeremy Hill reviews the Farmleigh Gallery photographic exhibition; The vision of a 19th century lensman. Goddard Orpen 1852-1932.
3pm; The Edward Richards-Orpen Memorial Trust Annual Lecture. “Under the influence: contextualising Lutyens/Jekyll design principles in the garden at Monksgrange.” David Averill, FRIAI, architect and member of the UK Lutyens Trust, will discuss the influence of Lutyens’ worldwide garden design work on Edward Richards-Orpen’s own redesign of the garden at Monksgrange in the 1900s.
3.45pm; Garden tour.
4.30pm; Tea/Coffee
5.00pm; Close.
Tickets, €15, from Eventbrite www.eventbrite.ie/e/under-the-influencecontextualising-the-garden-at-monksgrange-tickets-938745281407
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