Our Aims

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The great architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner praised Edgar Wood for his originality and some of his greatest buildings can still be found in Yorkshire where Wood had close family connections. The Edgar Wood Heritage Group (Yorkshire) is dedicated to raising the awareness of the work of Edgar Wood, especially in Yorkshire, encouraging and carrying out research on Edgar Wood and his influence in the region and lobbying to ensure the preservation and enhancement of his work.

The Group is in the process of creating an archive of Wood’s work and related subjects. Activities have included the opening to the public and interpretation of Wood’s buildings on Heritage Open Days, the organisation of lectures on the work of Edgar Wood and associated topics as well as the preparation of publications on aspects of Wood’s work in the region.





Anthony Dolan's feature-length documentary, A Painted Veil, is now available on YouTube. It profiles the life and work of Edgar Wood from his birth in 1860 to his death in 1935 in Monte Calvalo (Italy) where he spent his retirement. It shows how Wood was a pioneer of Art Nouveau and the Modern Movement in architecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaH5DVYjKUo



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HERITAGE OPEN DAYS: Exploring Edgar Wood’s Legacy: an Arts & Crafts walk, Friday 11 September 2026, 17.30
(Prebooking required)

Local historian David Griffith's latest book Huddersfield’s Arts & Crafts Houses: from Edgar Wood to the 1930s (published by Huddersfield Local History Society) celebrated some of the town’s best-designed homes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the developers and architects who created them. Starting from Wood’s Briarcourt and ending at his Clock Tower, David will introduce their work in this walk of around 1.5 miles.

The walk starts at Edgar Wood’s Briarcourt (1894-6, grade II listed – exterior view only), his first major work in Huddersfield. Other houses passed on the walk, dating from the 1910s to the 1930s, include several by Wood’s precocious local pupil Dennis Bamford and others by Joseph Berry, Willie Cooper, Norman Culley, John Lunn, Oswald White and Manchester-based Salomons & Steinthal. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO FIND OUT HOW TO BOOK (places are limited) PLEASE GO TO https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/exploring-edgar-wood-s-legacy-an-arts-crafts-walk.html

 
NB THIS YEAR THERE ARE NO TOURS OF BRiARCOURT 

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Edgar Wood Heritage Group (Yorkshire)