An enigma explored: medieval art and architecture at Bristol cathedral
19-21 September 2008
Clifton Hill House, Bristol
FRIDAY 19 SEPTEMBER: Clifton Hill House/Bristol cathedral
5.15
Themed evensong – Bristol cathedral
6.0
Welcome: Professor Pamela King; the Dean
Joseph Bettey – The conversion of St Augustine’s, Bristol to a cathedral and its
sixteenth-century history
Followed by a delegates’ reception, with buffet supper in the Chapter House
Sponsored by the Director for Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol
9.30 All depart
SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER: Clifton Hill House
09.00 Session one: The twelfth-century foundation and before
CHAIR: Richard Plant
Roger Leech – The early medieval landscape setting of St Augustine’s, Bristol
David Robinson – Victorine Canons in the West of England and their context
John McNeill – The Romanesque fabric
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Session two: The thirteenth-century Elder Lady Chapel
CHAIR: Pamela King
Sarah Boss – Who dwells in Wisdom’s house? The elder Lady chapel in the light of
sapiential theology
Tim Tatton-Brown – The Elder Lady Chapel at St Augustine’s, Bristol
1.15 Lunch
2.15 Session four: The fourteenth-century east end
CHAIR: Beth Williamson
Christopher Wilson – Gothic metamorphosed: the choir of Bristol Cathedral in the
context of European architecture circa 1300
Paul Crossley – Bristol cathedral and German Sondergotik
4.20 Coffee
5.00 Jon Cannon – ‘For the health of his heires and antecessors’: Berkeley patronage
and the fourteenth-century choir
5.45 Closing discussion
DISCUSSANT: Peter Draper
6.15 End of day one
7.30 Conference dinner, Clifton Hill House
SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER: Clifton Hill House and cathedral
09.30 Session five: The late medieval period and after
CHAIR: Peter Fleming
James Clark – The community of St Augustine’s in the Later Middle Ages
10.15 Coffee
10.45 Cathy Oakes – Secreta mihi mea: a set of emblematic wall-paintings from the Old
Deanery
11.30 Closing discussion
12.00 Lunch
1.15 Visits to the cathedral
3.15 Conference closes