Newcastle Cathedral will be the setting for a series of talks this month focusing on the 'weird and wonderful' aspects of Newcastle heritage, including the famous so-called ‘vampire rabbit’.
This Thursday, August 11 at 6.30pm, local academic and writer Icy Sedgwick launches the programme with ‘Newcastle Oddities’, focusing on peculiar architectural and historic features which can be found around the city, each with a distinct animal-based theme. Next Thursday, August 18, author Rob Kilburn gives a talk called ‘Tyne and Weird’ based on his book of the same name and some of the eclectic local stories it contains.
Icy returns on Thursday, August 25, to present ‘Cathedral Creatures: Dragons, Griffins and Wyverns’, which turns its attention to the beastly depictions throughout the 900-year-old building. Tickets for these talks are available on a ‘pay as you feel’ basis and can be booked online or on the door, although advance booking is recommended to guarantee your place.
