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The 12th New Insights into 16th- and 17th-Century British Architecture
Organised by Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner and Dr Jenny Saunt
In person at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom webinar
Saturday 15 January 2022
 
Sculpture and Ornament 
Lucy Gent: Word into Stone: Amplificatio and some Tudor and Early Jacobean architecture
Charlotte Davis: Professional Specialisms: the case of sculptor-designers in the late seventeenth century                  

Administration and Architecture 
Kirsty Wright: The Architecture of Administration: reconstructing the Exchequer of Receipt, 1548–1600
Rory Lamb: Scottish Secretaries in Whitehall: the history of Lord Melfort’s house in the Privy Gardens 

Staircases 
Dr Adam Menuge: New Light on Hardwick Hall 
Dr Jennifer S. Alexander: Building the Roman Stair at Burghley: statement and mason craft in the late sixteenth century

Beyond Walls 
Pete Smith: The Seventeenth-Century Iron Balcony or ‘Pergola’
                     Pete Smith, 'The Balcony or Pergola in England in the Seventeenth Century: A History and Gazetteer' in Journal of Historic Buildings and Places, vol. 2, 2023, pp. 37-73. 
Dr Clare Taylor: ‘Lether Gilt and Red’: gilt leather hangings in seventeenth-century Britain
                      Clare Taylor, ‘Musical instrument covers and their makers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland’, Galpin Society Journal, 2024, pp. 138-142.
                      Clare Taylor, 
‘An authentic material? Gilt leather imitations in late nineteenth-century Britain’, Postprints of the 12th ICOM-CC Leather Working Group Interim Meeting, held online, Amersfoort, October 2022. Download here. The full publication is also accessible on Lulu.com, where you can either download the ebook for free or order a high-quality printed copy.
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