CHCT Spring Conference

Saturday 1st May 2010

Lee Seng Tee Hall,

Wolfson College, Cambridge

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The Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust warmly invites you to its Spring Conference on May 1st 2010 at Lee Hall, Wolfson College.  We are also pleased to invite members of the Churches Monument Society, who can attend the conference at the CHCT members price.  

The CHCT Spring Conference 2010 is entitled:

'Enduring Monuments'

The Conference programme has been expertly organised by Dr John Maddison and Jane Kennedy and this year’s conference will address the history and care of church monuments and other memorials and changing attitudes to death and commemoration.

The impressive list of Speakers includes:

Professor Richard Marks

Who will speak on

The Rood and Remembrance

a talk which will encompass

medieval rood screens and funerary rites.

Professor Marks' primary research field is Gothic art, particularly stained glass, manuscript illumination and sculpture. His interests focus on the function of and audience for visual imagery. He curated a major exhibition entitled Gothic, held at the V & A in 2003-4.

Dr Jean Wilson

Who will speak on

Early Modern Memorials

The talk will discuss the ways in which post reformation memorials changed

from their predecessors,

and what they intended to communicate.

Jean Wilson lives in Harlton and is an enthusiastic member of the Trust. She has published widely on reformation monuments and is a council member of the Church Monuments Society.

Dr Julian Litten

Who will talk about

Funerary Monuments and

Attitudes to Death

in the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries

Julian has been described as ‘England’s foremost funerary historian’ and his book ‘The English Way of Death’ is in its 4th reprinting. He was on the curatorial staff of the V&A from 1966 -1999 and now lives in Kings Lynn

The final session will be a panel discussion with representatives of the Church Buildings Council and English Heritage and a leading conservator.  There will be advice on the care and repair of monuments, where to get professional help and sources of funding.

If you would like to join us, please download the pre- booking form above or contact the Conference Secretary by clicking here or phoning 01223 892430

Sir John Cotton at Landwade Chapel

Many thanks to NextNorth,  & Wolfson College &

for all their great help, advice & Support