OUR EXPERT'S STORY
Dr Jonathan Foyle was chief executive of the British office of World Monuments Fund for eight years, and a curator of historic buildings at Hampton Court for as long, during which time he took his 2002 PhD on reconstructing Wolsey's palace. He is a frequent feature writer for the Financial Times on issues of architecture and craft and has written seven monographs on medieval great buildings. A presenter of numerous television series, including BBC Four's Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer? and BBC Two's Climbing Great Buildings, he lectures on art-historical topics. Among his Arts Society talks are A Paradise Garden: the art of medieval natural symbols; Lincoln Cathedral: Mary’s Paradise Garden: 300 years of changing expression on St Mary in an architecturally superlative cathedral; and Henry VII’s State Bed, the story of an exceptional recent discovery of state furniture, rich with carved plant symbolism, revealing the self-image of one of our most interesting monarchs.
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