​The 15th New Insights into C16th and C17th British Architecture conference
will take place on Saturday 18 January 2025 at the Society of Antiquaries, London
​
The programme is listed below. A pdf can be downloaded here. 

From 9:30
Registration

10:00                
Introduction and welcome
Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner and Dr Jenny Saunt
 
RENAISSANCE TRACES
 
10:15–10:45      
The Temporary Palace at Guisnes erected for entertaining during the Field of Cloth of Gold in 1520 
Ian Bristow

10:45–11:15      
The High Renaissance in West Yorkshire: the Painted Chamber at Calverley Old Hall
Caroline Stanford

11:15–11:30     
Questions and discussion
 
11:30–12:00       
Morning refreshment 
 
PLANNING ON PAPER
 
12:00–12:30          
Plans for 'the House in a form of a cross': proposals for development of the Savoy Hospital? 
Dr Jill Husselby
 
12:30–13:00          
'Re-tackling the beast': The Book of Architecture of John Thorpe, c. 1596 – c. 1623, in Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Dr Manolo Guerci

13:00–13:15         
Questions and discussion
 
13:15–14:00         
Lunch
 
ROYAL AGENDAS
 
14:00–14:30          
Bramshill, Hampshire: reconsidering the plan, interiors and function of an early 17th-century country house
Dr Emily Cole and James Rothwell

14:30–15:00          
New insights into the early work of Inigo Jones at Newmarket
Chris Garibaldi

15:00–15:15
Questions and discussion 

15:15–15:45
Afternoon refreshment 

MEDIATION THROUGH ARCHITECTURE 

15:45–16:15
"We Never Have Intrigue Enough": Grinling Gibbons, The Empress of Morocco, and Frames for Frames
Professor Christine Stevenson 

16:15–16:45
​Rising from the Ashes: The Monument as Consolatory Landmark
Dr Catriona Murray

16:45–17:00
Questions and discussion 

17:00 
Conference closes

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