This year Medieval Section lectures will be held at Swarthmore, just down the road from Claremont, at 2pm. The full programme for the year can be found at http://medieval.yas.org.uk/content/programme.html
This Saturday, 10th October, Kate Giles will be talking about Antiquarians, Archbishops and Medieval wall paintings: the case of Pickering parish church.
In 1852, the traces of a remarkable scheme of 15th century wall paintings were uncovered during restoration works in Pickering parish church (North Yorkshire). Their discovery prompted a remarkable exchange between the then incumbent, the Rev. Ponsonby, local Antiquarians and the Archbishop of York which resulted in the attempted destruction of the paintings, which were only re-uncovered in the 1870s and extensively restored. Since then the paintings have attracted the scholarly attention of some of the country’s leading 20th century wall paintings experts including E.W.Tristram and E.C.Rouse. This lecture will tell the story of these remarkable paintings and in doing, seek to explain how and why an understanding of the study of the ‘English primitives’ is central to our understanding of the development of medieval archaeology today.
Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society 