Vanbrugh and Greenwich

Wednesday, 22nd April at 7.00 pm.

Nelson Room of the Trafalgar Tavern

2026 marks the tercentenary of the death of John Vanbrugh, the playwright-turned-architect who designed Castle Howard and Blenheim. Charles Saumarez Smith, former Director of the National Gallery has written a biography John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture and will be giving a talk in the Nelson Room of the Trafalgar Tavern on Vanbrugh and Greenwich. Architectural historian Neil Bingham will introduce Saumarez Smith.

Ticketed Free event - for Members only

Book your place on Eventbrite - via the link to the Blackheath Society website below which will open at 10:00am on Thursday 5th March

 Tickets  will be allocated on a“first-come, first-served basis.”

Members of the Greenwich Historical Society do not need to apply for a ticket, as an allocation has already been made for them.

Charles Saumarez Smith’s John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture was published by Lund Humphries in November 2025. An exhibition of Vanbrugh’s drawings opens at Sir John Soane’s Museum on 4th March.