First and Last Loves

by John Betjeman

  Royal Fine Arts Commission, 1

  Royal Holloway College for Women, Englefield Green, 1, 2

  R.I.B.A., 1; building, 1

  Ruck, Berta, 1

  Rugby Chapel, 1

  Ruskin, 1, 2, 3; Ethics of the Dust, 1;

  Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1

  S

  St. Agnes, Kennington, 1, 2

  St. Anne, Alderney, 1

  St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral, Aberdeen, 1

  St. Augustine’s, Hull, 1; Kilburn, 1, 2;

  Pendlebury, 1

  St. Augustine’s College, Canterbury, 1

  St. Chad’s, Haggerston, 1

  St. Clement’s, Bournemouth, 1

  St. Columba’s, Haggerston, 1, 2

  St. Cyprian’s, Clarence Gate, 1

  St. David’s, Exeter, 1

  St. Endellion, Cornwall, 1; College of Prebends, 1

  St. Finbar’s Cathedral, Cork, 1, 2

  St. Francis, Bournemouth, 1

  St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, 1, 2, 3

  St. German’s, Roath, 1, 2

  St. James’s Theatre, London, 1

  St. John’s Chapel, Isle of Man, 1

  St. John’s, Holland Road, Kensington, 1

  St. John the Evangelist, Red Lion Square, 1.

  St. Julien’s Ambulatory, Brioude, 1

  St. Luke’s, Swindon, 1

  St. Machar’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, 1

  St. Mark’s, Milverton, 1; Swindon, 1

  St. Martin’s, Scarborough, 1

  St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, 1

  St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, 1

  St. Mary’s, Boscombe, 1

  St. Michael’s, Camden Town, 1; Tenbury, 1

  St. Mungo’s Cathedral, Glasgow, 1

  St. Pancras New Church, 1

  St. Pancras Station and Hotel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1 n.

  St. Paul’s, Wokingham, 1

  St. Peter’s, Vauxhall, 1

  St. Petroc and his church, Padstow, 1

  St. Philip’s, Cosham, 1

  St. Protus and St. Hyacinth, Blisland, 1

  St. Saviour’s, Highbury, 1; Swindon, 1

  St. Stephen’s, Bournemouth, 1, 2, 3; Haverstock Hill, 1

  St. Wilfrid’s, Harrogate, 1, 2

  Salisbury Cathedral, 1

  Salvin, 1

  Scott, George Gilbert, 1, 2 3, 4, 5

  Scott, Sir Gilbert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Scott, Sir Walter, 1, 2; Heart of Midlothian, 1

  Seale, Mr., 1

  Sedding, Edmund, 1

  Sedding, J. D., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Seddon, J. P., 1

  Shaw, Bernard, 1

  Shaw, Richard Norman, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Shepherd, Thomas H., Modern Athens, 1

  Sidmouth, 1

  Simpson, Archibald, 1

  Slater, W., 1

  Smirke, Sir Robert, 1, 2

  Smith, John, 1, 2

  Snaefell, 1

  Soane, Sir John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Museum, 1

  Somerset House, London, 1

  South Africa House, London, 1

  South Hampstead Station, 1

  Stanhope Street Wesleyan Chapel, Liverpool, 1

  Stevenson, J. J., 1

  Stevensons, The, 1, 2

  Stewart, George, 1

  Stokes, Leonard, 1

  Strand Magazine, 1

  Strawberry Hill, 1

  Street, George Edmund, 1& n., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Stuart, James, 1

  Suburban man, age of, 1

  Swaffham Methodist Chapel, Norfolk, 1

  Summerson, John, 1, 2

  Swan House, Chelsea, 1

  Swinburne, Algernon, 1

  Swindon, 1

  Syon House, 1

  T

  Tapps, Sir George, 1

  Taylor, Sir Henry, 1

  Taylor, I., 1

  Taylor, Jane, Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners, 1 & n.

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 1, 2

  Teulon, S. S., 1, 2

  Theatre Royal, Bristol, 1; Newcastle, 1

  Theatres, older and more respectable form of entertainment architecture, 1

  Thomas, John, 1

  Thompson, 1

  Thomson, “Greek,” 1

  Thorneycroft, Sir Hamo, 1

  Tisbury Methodist Chapel, Wilts, 1

  Tite, Sir William, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Tower Bridge, London, 1

  Tower of Refuge, Isle of Man, 1

  Town Hall, Leeds, 1, 2, 3; Manchester, 1

  Travers, Martin, 1

  Tregonwell, Lewis, 1

  Truro Cathedral, 1, 2

  Truefitt, George, 1

  Tugwells, The, 1

  Tugwell, Sidney, 1

  Turner’s St. Catherine’s Hill, 1

  Tynwald Day, Isle of Man, 1

  U

  Undercliff, Isle of Wight, 1

  Underwood, G. A., 1

  Unitarian architecture, 1, 2, 3

  Unitarians’ Year Book, 1

  University, Leeds, 1

  University Museum, Oxford, 1

  University of Wales, Aberystwith, 1

  U.S.S.R. architecture, 1

  V

  Ventnor, 1

  Victoria, Queen, 1, 2

  Victoria Station, 1

  Victorian architecture, age of reaction to, 1; civil engineers and, 1, 2;

  hunt for what is good in, 1;

  classic survival and Byzantine revival, 1, 2;

  Gothic revival, 1, 2;

  “hards,” 1, 2;

  freaks, 1;

  illustrated notes on, 1;

  Medievalists, 1, 2;

  Ruskinian Gothic, 1;

  “young men from Mr. Street’s office,” 1;

  curious revivals, 1;

  survival, 1;

  Parish Church, Lyndhurst, 1

  Voysey, C. F. A., 1, 2, 3, 4

  W

  Wales, chapel architecture, 1, 2, 3

  Waltham Abbey, 1

  Walton, George, 1, 2, 3

  Wantage Sisters, The, 1

  Waterhouse, Alfred, 1

  Waterloo Bridge, 1

  Waterloo Station, 1, 2

  Webb, Philip, 1

  Welch, John, 1, 2

  Weller, Mr., 1

  Wellington, Duke of, 1

  Wells, A. Randall, 1

  Wells, H. G., 1, 2

  Wembley Exhibition, 1924, 1

  Wesley, John, 1, 2

  Westcott Chapel of Ease, Bucks, 1

  Westminster Cathedral, 1

  Weymouth, 1; of the Fleet, 1;

  of summer visitors, 1;

  architecture, 1

  Whaley, “Buck,” 1

  White City, London, 1, 2

  White, William, 1, 2

  Whitfield, 1

  Wild, 1

  William III, 1

  “Wispers,” Midhurst, 1, 2

  Wood, Edgar, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Wood, Sancton, 1

  Woodward, Benjamin, 1

  Woodyer, Henry, 1

  Worthingtons, The, 1

  Wren, Sir Christopher, 1, 2 n., 3, 4, 5

  Wyatt, Digby, 1

  Wyatt, James, 1

  Y

  Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 1

  York Central Station, 1

  About the Author

  Poet and architectural critic, Sir John Betjeman was born in North London in 1906. He was taught by T. S. Eliot at Highgate Junior School and was rusticated from Magdalen College Oxford for failing Divinity. He published several poetry collections, including New Bats in Old Belfries and A Few Late Chrysanthemums, and several works on architecture. His Collected Poems was published in 1958 and the first edition sold over 100,000 copies. He was knighted in 1969 and appointed Poet Laureate in 1972. He died in Cornwall in 1984.

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