Appendix 5: The Spencer Catalogue

The Catalogue is referred to in Policy C-CI2: ‘Stanley Spencer’s Cookham’. It is presented as a free-standing appendix to the Neighbourhood Plan and must be referred to. It:

Identifies and highlights the areas/elements of Cookham’s built environment or landscape that were painted by Spencer.
Shows and informs the visual linkage between a given Spencer painting and the scene today.
Highlights the character of an area (e.g.: a green space), or its important history (e.g.: malthouses), in terms of how it was in Spencer’s day as reflected in his works.
Demonstrates the nature of building or environmental features most singled out and enjoyed by Spencer.
Provides a source of information for residents who may wish to help preserve the ‘Spencerian’ character of Cookham by incorporating, as changes are made, specific features highlighted by Spencer. Examples might include any introduction of picket or wrought iron fences, capped brick and flint walls, reclaimed tiling for roofs, adjacent red and yellow colours in brickwork, rounded or arched windows, or ‘barley sugar columns’. Magnolia trees, other specimen trees, swathes of green space, wildflowers, woodlands, and gardens full of richly coloured flower beds, are also characteristic of Spencer’s paintings.

Copyright note:

This appendix was created by Dr Shelagh (“Shez”) Courtenay-Smith, who has asserted her moral right to ownership. She retains full copyright and all her other rights to and over it. It is used in this Plan with her kind permission. This permission is strictly limited, such that the appendix and its content may be quoted from and reproduced only in connection with planning policy and applications in the Parish of Cookham. Certain photographs are used in it with the kind permission of others, as specified in it, and as such are subject to the same restrictions.

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