​The 12th New Insights into C16th and C17th British Architecture conference
​takes place on Saturday 15 January 2022 in person at the Society of Antiquaries, London,
​and online via Zoom webinar

The programme is listed below. A pdf can be downloaded here. 
10:00                
Introduction and welcome
Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner and Dr Jenny Saunt
 
SCULPTURE AND ORNAMENT
 
10:15–10:45      
Words into Stone: Amplificatio and some Tudor to Early Jacobean architecture 
Lucy Gent

10:45–11:15      
Professional Specialisms: the case of sculptor-designers in the late seventeenth century
Charlotte Davis

11:15–11:30     
Questions and discussion
 
11:30–12:00       
Pause for morning refreshment 
 
ADMINISTRATION AND ARCHITECTURE 
 
12:00–12:30          
The Architecture of Administration: reconstructing the Exchequer of Receipt, 1548–1600
Kirsty Wright 
 
12:30–13:0          
Scottish Secretaries in Whitehall: the history of Lord Melfort's house in the Privy Gardens
Rory Lamb

13:00–13:15         
Questions and discussion
 
13:15–14:00         
Lunch
 
STAIRCASES
 
14:00–14:30          
New Light on Hardwick Hall
Dr Adam Menuge

14:30–15:00          
Building the Roman Stair at Burghley: statement and mason craft in the late sixteenth century
Dr Jennifer S. Alexander

15:00–15:15
Questions and discussion 

15:15–15:45
Pause for afternoon refreshment 

BEYOND WALLS 

15:45–16:15 
The Seventeenth-Century Iron Balcony or 'Pergola' 
Pete Smith 

16:15–16:45
​'Lether Gilt and Red': Gilt Leather Hangings in Seventeenth-Century Britain 
Dr Clare Taylor 

16:45–17:00
Questions and discussion 

17:00 
Conference ends 
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Image: Wall painting, about 1600, Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire. Photographed by Richard Ireland