Stoneham—Temple of Memory.

The Dream of Stoneham Realised.

With Harry Willis Fleming, Jane Wildgoose, and Gregory Whitehead.

Photo: Jane Wildgoose

“One way to describe the project is as the autobiography of Stoneham — country house, military hospital, Edwardian club, hulk, folly.  Another description is that the project is beating the bounds of a secret history of English culture.  For Stoneham — an edifice located at the crossroads of the public and private, mind and matter, memory and imagination — is revealed to be a remarkable cultural hologram ...

“The project explores the traditions and precepts embodied in the lost building, and contrasts these with the reality of Stoneham's life and fate: its decay, the dispersal of its contents, the many lives that touched it.

“The result will be part cabinet of curiosities, part memory palace, and pieced with shimmering fragments — objects, symbols, stories, and revived memories.”