There will be a meeting to commemorate & celebrate the life and work of Dr. Pat Hill-Cottingham at 2.30pm on Saturday 21st February at the Memorial Hall, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton. (ST23762807). If you have objects or photographs associated with Pat, please bring them along. Details of the programme for the day will be sent out nearer the time. Please inform any friends in the Society who are not on e-mail and others who knew Pat. To find the Memorial Hall, follow the brown tourist signs towards Hestercombe from the A358 Minehead Road. Just after the village primary school, the road turns sharply left. The hall is straight ahead of you up a drive to the right of the lodge. If you are using a satnav, the primary school’s postcode is TA2 8JY.

Leader:  Nigel Pearce
A grade II listed former rectory and associated Parish Church.
The court is now being used as an education centre specialising in sustainable living, and provides the venue for courses on green technologies and sustainable land use. It is soon to be the subject of a programme of restoration projects which will include much needed structural repairs and improvements to the interior.
The church and court were built in 1848 to designs by Richard Cromwell Carpenter, a friend and admirer of ANW Pugin.
Amongst his most notable work was Lancing College in Sussex (1854), which has been described as ‘the finest example of a Gothic Church since the Middle Ages, and in its gracefulness of detail and majesty of proportion is an enduring monument to the genius of Richard Cromwell Carpenter, its architect’.
Meet at the church (SY 336 963) at 1.30pm
Booking with the SANHS office 01823 272429 essential as numbers are limited.
A £5.00 contribution per person to the centre funds is requested, which will include afternoon tea.