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)
It is in connection with C again, that I am now seeking assistance. I have become fascinated by the work of Thomas Kerrich (1748–1828), an antiquary who drew medieval monuments and was a friend and mentor of the great antiquarian artist Charles Alfred Stothard. I should be very interested to know of any drawings or watercolours by Kerrich in private ownership. I know some were sold in Cambridge earlier this year but not what happened to them. Any information would be very gratefully received. Comment here or contact me directly at pgl1@le.ac.uk
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