The second annual St Cuthbert Lecture, ‘Building Bolton’, will take place in Bolton Abbey Priory church on Sunday 22nd March at 3pm. This year’s lecturer is Professor Richard Morris. An invitation has been extended to members of the Medieval Section to attend this lecture.
As both an archaeologist and historian, Richard has an unrivalled knowledge of the Yorkshire Dales and the historical secrets that lie hidden within its landscape and ancient churches.
Richard writes: ‘In my Lecture I set out to answer four linked questions: Who built Bolton Priory? Why does it stand where it does? In the eyes of its benefactors what was it for? Why were parts of it altered?’ During the talk Richard will set Bolton in the context of other medieval religious houses in and around the Yorkshire Dales, and examine the contemporary ideas that brought them into being.
Thanks are due to John Cruse who kindly relayed the invitation.
Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society 