‘Storing Sacred Treasures: the medieval Wunderkammer’ and AGM
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Tuesday 23 November 2021
(6pm following the Society's AGM at 5pm) - The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AT
- Lecturer: Lesley Milner
The lecture will follow the Society’s 2021 AGM which starts at 5pm. A joint ticket will be issued for both events.
Treasure houses form part of every medieval cathedral or church. Such buildings usually take the form of annexes attached to the east end of the church, within reasonable distance of the high altar. Their function as store houses of the priceless ecclesiastical treasure belonging to the church meant that they were accessible to only a few privileged individuals and remain inaccessible to the general public even today. Nevertheless, as this lecture will discuss, many such buildings, currently in danger of neglect, are resplendent pieces of architecture in their own right.
Lecturer
Dr Lesley Milner is an art historian. She completed her PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2015. Her doctoral thesis Secret spaces: English sacristies, vestries and treasure rooms, 1066-1300 examined the chambers belonging to cathedrals and churches which conserved ecclesiastical treasure. Her book Secret Spaces: Sacred treasuries in England 1066–1320 was published in 2024. She has published in the Antiquaries Journal, the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, and the Burlington Magazine. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
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