Autumn Lecture with Dr Jonathan Foyle 'Remnants'

We are thrilled to welcome back architectural historian, Dr Jonathan Foyle to deliver Shaftesbury Abbey Museum’s autumn lecture. He is a passionate advocate for heritage, an erudite and engaging speaker with a deep knowledge and love of English medieval buildings and artefacts and the stories they tell.

‘Shaftesbury Abbey is a fragment of what it used to be. But the history that surrounds us is inevitably fragmentary: documentary records are inevitably incomplete, all buildings change over time, and their relics are usually broken and dispersed- to the great advantage of museums. Nevertheless, though they can be 'lost in plain sight', or misattributed, piecemeal survivals from the past can be full of invaluable information when we inspect them closely. This talk discusses the information that can be gleaned from historic fragments from the abbey and beyond.’

Dr Foyle is a lecturer at the University of Bath, specialising in Building Conservation and…