ANTIQUARIAN DEPICTIONS OF THE INTERIOR OF FRAMLINGHAM CHURCH
As director of the project, my job is to co-ordinate the collaborating teams, or ‘work-groups’, with their individual researchers.
As the Principal Investigator (a rather Gilbert-and-Sullivan title!), I also have four research strands, all of which relate to my role as the researcher responsible for understanding the tomb-monuments of the Howards and their predecessors.
A . I research the monuments themselves and the sculpted fragments excavated at Thetford which are related to them, or belong to other monuments from the priory, or in the church (except for the seventeenth-century restrospective tomb of the Earl of Surrey, which is studied by Dr Lisa Ford of the Yale Center for British Art, Yale University)
B. I investigate how they were actually made, as physical objects; this involves a wider consideration of medieval and post-medieval sculpture and of the movements of monuments
C. The depictions and representations of them in the past and their historiography are also concerns, as I study the monuments’ reception and later social history
D. I study their wider cultural context and particularly the reasons some components were moved from Thetford to Framlingham and others were left at the priory (see my paper on the Dissolution of the Chantries in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association for 2011)
In connection with C, I need to collate and sequence all the antiquarian drawings and engravings of the interior of the chancel at Framlingham, which houses the Howard monuments.
I would welcome information about, or scanned images of, the interior of the chancel. It would, of course, be extremely helpful if these are dated or datable, but I would welcome any representations at all.
Comment here or contact me directly at pgl1@le.ac.uk
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