​The 16th New Insights into C16th and C17th British Architecture conference
will take place on Saturday 24 January 2026 at the Society of Antiquaries, London
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The programme is listed below. A pdf can be downloaded here. 

From 9:30
Registration

10:00                
Introduction and welcome
Dr Emily Cole and Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner
 
ROYAL REASSESSMENTS
 
10:15–10:45      
The Banqueting House Whitehall: reconstructing its early appearance 
David Brock

10:45–11:15      
Reinterpreting the Stuart sequence: layout, interior decoration and accessibility 
Dr Julia Hamilton

11:15–11:30     
Questions and discussion
 
11:30–12:00       
Morning refreshment 
 
CONSTRUCTING GENTRY IDENTITIES
 
12:00–12:30          
Bruisyard Hall: from monastery to manor, the development of recusant East Anglian architecture in the late 16th century 
Alexander Stow
 
12:30–13:00          
Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire: revisions to the narratives of the 16th-century creation of the Hall and the 17th-century 'abandonment' phase
Dr Megan Doole 

13:00–13:15         
Questions and discussion
 
13:15–14:00         
Lunch
 
ECCLESIASTICAL DESIGN
 
14:00–14:30          
The curious case of the two Obadiahs: prints and the glazing of Wadham College Chapel, Oxford
Anthony Wells-Cole

14:30–15:00          
Jones in the parishes: a new design for St Gregory's-by-St-Paul's (1636)
Luka Pajovic

15:00–15:15
Questions and discussion 

15:15–15:45
Afternoon refreshment 

CONTINENTAL CONNECTIONS 

15:45–16:15
Stoke Park, Northamptonshire: Inigo Jones's unbuilt villa rotonda
Ian Chown 

16:15–16:45
​The Gardens of Stansted Park, Sussex
Dr Sally Jeffery

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