The 14th New Insights into 16th- and 17th-Century British Architecture
Organised by Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner and Dr Jenny Saunt
The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Saturday 20 January 2024
Cities in Text
Dr Patrick Kragelund: An Anonymous Diary on the Visit of King Christian IV of Denmark to England in 1606
Matthew Lloyd Roberts: Architectural and Political Order in William Davenant’s ‘Burlesque on the Cities of London and Paris’
Inheritance and Innovation
Bethan Scorey: Investigating St Fagans Castle, an Elizabethan Mansion in Cardiff
Dr Gordon Higgott and Dr Adam White: Inigo Jones, Nicholas Stone and the Origins of the Open-Well Suspended Staircase in Britain
Gordon Higgott and Adam White 'Architect and Mason-Architect: Inigo Jones, Nicholas Stone and the development of the open-well suspended staircase in the 1630s' in Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes, eds, Between Design and Making: Architecture and Craftsmanship, 1630-1760, (UCL, 2024). Available via download from 1 July 2024: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/238838
Architectural Lives
Helen Hughes: ‘... not as good arketechas as your worthy Grande Father nor never shall be...’: the Architectural Achievements of Sir Charles Cavendish
Dr Charles Saumarez Smith: New Views on Vanbrugh and his Drawings
Gardens...and Churches
Dr Ann Benson: The Botanical Paintings on the Panelling at Bramshill House, Hampshire
Luka Pajovic: ‘This great, and (in our time) unparalell’d piece of Work’: Reevaluating St Katharine Cree
Organised by Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner and Dr Jenny Saunt
The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Saturday 20 January 2024
Cities in Text
Dr Patrick Kragelund: An Anonymous Diary on the Visit of King Christian IV of Denmark to England in 1606
Matthew Lloyd Roberts: Architectural and Political Order in William Davenant’s ‘Burlesque on the Cities of London and Paris’
Inheritance and Innovation
Bethan Scorey: Investigating St Fagans Castle, an Elizabethan Mansion in Cardiff
Dr Gordon Higgott and Dr Adam White: Inigo Jones, Nicholas Stone and the Origins of the Open-Well Suspended Staircase in Britain
Gordon Higgott and Adam White 'Architect and Mason-Architect: Inigo Jones, Nicholas Stone and the development of the open-well suspended staircase in the 1630s' in Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes, eds, Between Design and Making: Architecture and Craftsmanship, 1630-1760, (UCL, 2024). Available via download from 1 July 2024: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/238838
Architectural Lives
Helen Hughes: ‘... not as good arketechas as your worthy Grande Father nor never shall be...’: the Architectural Achievements of Sir Charles Cavendish
Dr Charles Saumarez Smith: New Views on Vanbrugh and his Drawings
Gardens...and Churches
Dr Ann Benson: The Botanical Paintings on the Panelling at Bramshill House, Hampshire
Luka Pajovic: ‘This great, and (in our time) unparalell’d piece of Work’: Reevaluating St Katharine Cree