The 7th New Insights into 16th- and 17th-Century British Architecture
Organised by Dr Claire Gapper and Dr Paula Henderson
The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly
Saturday 21 January 2017
Architecture and national identity
Dr Ann-Marie Akehurst: Constructing Britannia in the 16th and 17th centuries
‘“tis risen again”: York, architecture, and national identity’, in Catherine Armstrong and John Hinks (eds.) The English Urban
Renaissance Revisited, (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018), Chapter 2.
‘Writing, building, and walking: recovering York’s sanctity (1586-1736)’. Annals of The City of Ronse, Belgium, (2019).
Dr Charles Wemyss: The embodiment of ancestry in 17th-century Scottish castles
Noble Houses of Scotland (Munich, London, New York, 2014)
Elizabethan architecture: re-assessments and new links
Nicholas Cooper: Seeing is believing: the plan of Montacute
Montacute, Somerset (National Trust guidebook, 2018)
Dr Patrick Kragelund: Christian IV’s visit to Theobalds and the building of Frederiksborg Palace, 1602‒22
A Stage for the King. The travels of Christian IV of Denmark and the building of Frederiksborg Castle (Copenhagen, 2019).
17th-century interiors
Dr Gordon Higgott: Edward Pearce Sr and the ascendancy of trompe l’oeil decoration in the 1630s and 1640s
Gordon Higgott and A. V. Grimstone, ‘Drawings by Edward Pearce senior, fl. 1630‒d.1658: painter, decorator and interior
designer’, The Walpole Society, vol. 82 (2020).
Dr Adrian Green: Furnishing Durham and Auckland Castles for Bishop Cosin, Bishop of Durham, 1660‒72
Building for England: John Cosin’s Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge (Durham and Toronto, 2016).
Dr Richard Morrice: Carved panel staircases in 17th-century England
The interaction of architecture and landscape
Dr Ann Benson: Uncovering the forgotten Welsh estate of the Dukes of Beaufort
‘The Troy House Estate’s inventory of 1557: wealth, power and echoes of a royal visit, The Monmouthshire
Antiquary, XXXIV (2018), 75‒92.
Troy House: a Tudor estate across time (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017).
‘From 1698, Troy House became largely frozen in time’, The Architectural Historian, Issue 5, August 2017, 22‒24.
‘The Evidence for an Extant Conduit House on the Troy Estate’, The Monmouthshire Antiquary, XXX (2014), 39‒56.
Organised by Dr Claire Gapper and Dr Paula Henderson
The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly
Saturday 21 January 2017
Architecture and national identity
Dr Ann-Marie Akehurst: Constructing Britannia in the 16th and 17th centuries
‘“tis risen again”: York, architecture, and national identity’, in Catherine Armstrong and John Hinks (eds.) The English Urban
Renaissance Revisited, (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018), Chapter 2.
‘Writing, building, and walking: recovering York’s sanctity (1586-1736)’. Annals of The City of Ronse, Belgium, (2019).
Dr Charles Wemyss: The embodiment of ancestry in 17th-century Scottish castles
Noble Houses of Scotland (Munich, London, New York, 2014)
Elizabethan architecture: re-assessments and new links
Nicholas Cooper: Seeing is believing: the plan of Montacute
Montacute, Somerset (National Trust guidebook, 2018)
Dr Patrick Kragelund: Christian IV’s visit to Theobalds and the building of Frederiksborg Palace, 1602‒22
A Stage for the King. The travels of Christian IV of Denmark and the building of Frederiksborg Castle (Copenhagen, 2019).
17th-century interiors
Dr Gordon Higgott: Edward Pearce Sr and the ascendancy of trompe l’oeil decoration in the 1630s and 1640s
Gordon Higgott and A. V. Grimstone, ‘Drawings by Edward Pearce senior, fl. 1630‒d.1658: painter, decorator and interior
designer’, The Walpole Society, vol. 82 (2020).
Dr Adrian Green: Furnishing Durham and Auckland Castles for Bishop Cosin, Bishop of Durham, 1660‒72
Building for England: John Cosin’s Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge (Durham and Toronto, 2016).
Dr Richard Morrice: Carved panel staircases in 17th-century England
The interaction of architecture and landscape
Dr Ann Benson: Uncovering the forgotten Welsh estate of the Dukes of Beaufort
‘The Troy House Estate’s inventory of 1557: wealth, power and echoes of a royal visit, The Monmouthshire
Antiquary, XXXIV (2018), 75‒92.
Troy House: a Tudor estate across time (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2017).
‘From 1698, Troy House became largely frozen in time’, The Architectural Historian, Issue 5, August 2017, 22‒24.
‘The Evidence for an Extant Conduit House on the Troy Estate’, The Monmouthshire Antiquary, XXX (2014), 39‒56.