Monday 9 March, 5.15pm, Harris Manchester College Chapel
The subject of our 2026 Manchester Lecture will be the Worthingtons, the Manchester-based family firm of architects that was responsible for designing and building the main college quad between 1889 and 1893, as well as many other buildings in Oxford and the North of England.
William Whyte, Professor of Social and Architectural History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at St John's College, will deliver the lecture. In his words:
"The Worthington family grew up in Manchester and helped create modern Manchester. Social reformers as well as architects, they saw building as a way of making a better world; that is why Thomas Worthington and his son Percy built Harris Manchester College. But their story is not just about Manchester and Oxford. It’s also about the changing fortunes of Unitarianism and, still more, about the evolution of British architecture between the 1860s and the 1960s."
The event is free and open to all.
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