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
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