PORTRAITS IN STONE: THE GREAT CATHEDRALS OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

MARK COTTLE

March 2nd 2022 at the 37 Club, Puriton

TA7 8AD

2.00 for a 2.15 start

Over a time span of five hundred years the great medieval cathedrals of England were built. In terms of resources called upon, space covered, design and craftsmanship employed, this period marks the greatest single architectural achievement in English history. From Durham to Gloucester the lecture follows the evolution of cathedral building with particular reference to structural and aesthetic details together with some of the fascinating figures and events behind them – portraits in stone as rich as a great East Window.

Born on the Isles of Scilly and educated at Truro School, Cornwall, and Birmingham University. Mark’s career has been spent in education and training at home and abroad. He has lectured at Exeter College on Medieval and Tudor history, St Mark’s & St John’s University College, Plymouth, and at Bath University on Anglo Saxon and medieval England.

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