Visit: Saturday 6 November 2010
Meet at: The Brompton Library, 210 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5

10.15 am
Sir Hugh Smithson and the Percy Inheritance
Sarah Bowles

11.30 am
“Novelty and variety”: Robert Adam at Syon
Philippa Barton

12.30 pm
Lunch

2.30 pm
Private visit to Syon House, Brentford

Hugh Smithson, Duke of Northumberland, engaged Robert Adam in 1761 to modernize his ancient monastic property. The series of state rooms, each contrasting with one another and each having exquisite materials and decorations, culminates in Adam’s transformation of the Jacobean long gallery with its enchanting closets.

4.30 pm
Tea

5.00 pm
Coach departs for central London