Category: News from the BAA

The BAA’s December 2025 conference titled ‘Boundaries and Encounters in Medieval Art and Architecture’, honoring John McNeill, will feature a diverse program of over 30 speakers across ten themed panels.

We’re finalising details of the BAA Annual Lecture Series for October 2025 — May 2026.

The first lecture of 2025 will now take place on Monday, 6 January, when Dr Nicola Coldstream will give a talk entitled ‘Crowd-funding in the Architectural Patronage of Late Medieval English Merchants’. The lecture will be followed by the Association’s Twelfth-Night Party.

The 2025 conference will be held in Leicester from 21-25 July on the theme of ‘Leicester and Leicestershire: Roman and Medieval Architecture and Art‘. Booking forms will be available in February 2025. For enquiries contact Kate Milburn on conferences@thebaa.org

Tickets are available for the Association’s Twelfth-Night party via Eventbrite.

Thanks to the generosity of Bob Allies, the BAA is delighted to announce it is collaborating with the British School at Rome in a new fellowship in Romanesque architectural history. The fellowship is tenable for one month (the first award will be for June 2025) and provides for board and lodging at the BSR and…

Wednesday 29th November 2023 12.30 pm – 17.35 pm (GMT) Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsf-qprD0jH9UbLeXa9NJx-jLwbibe6woG  12.30 – 12.40 pm – Welcome 12.40 – 14.30 pm – Panel 1 Panel 1: Approaches to Overlooked Elements in Medieval and Early Modern Art and Architecture 12.40-13.00pm: Bryony Wilde (University of Warwick, UK), ‘Decoding Medieval Roof Bosses’ 13.00-13.20 pm: Mats Dijkdrent…

My dissertation aims to square medieval building contracts with the fabric of buildings as they were actually built, so visiting the sites themselves has been essential. The BAA’s travel award has made this possible. The goal is to shed light on the value judgements contained in building contracts, the most interesting of which hinge on…