On Friday 2 June, we’ll be sharing our latest research on St Mary’s church, Nantwich on the first day of a conference at the Courtauld Institute entitled Towards an Art History of the Parish Church. Further details of the programme and how to book are available here.
Our session will be chaired by Prof Paul Binski, who has recently published an article in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association on a miniature vault at St Andrew’s church at Irnham in Lincolnshire, which he identifies as a copy of the high vault of Wells Cathedral (also dedicated to St Andrew). Also on the programme are Andrew Budge, who spoke at our ‘Modelling Medieval Vaults’ conference in 2016; Jon Cannon, who has published on Bristol Cathedral, which has wonderful lierne vaults, and Prof Sandy Heslop, who organized the ‘Invention and Imagination’ conference at the British Museum in 2014, at which we first presented our project. It will be very exciting to find out about so much new research being undertaken on the parish church and to be able to demonstrate what our methods can add to this discussion.
