Professor Richard Fawcett,
OBE, PhD, FRSE, FSA, FSA Scot
Position: Professor (part time)
Email:
rf41@st-andrews.ac.uk
Richard received his PhD for his research on the 14th and 15th-century church architecture of East Anglia. He spent a period on the curatorial staff at Temple Newsam, which led him to develop an interest in country house architecture; but most of his career has been in the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments of Historic Scotland, dealing with the conservation of a wide range of architectural monuments. While retaining wider interests, his recent research has concentrated on the medieval architecture of Scotland, and especially on the sources of the ideas current in the later middle ages.
He has published widely on many aspects of architectural history, but with a particular focus on medieval Scotland. He has recently published a book on the architecture of the Scottish medieval Church (Yale University Press) and a book on castle restoration in Scotland is to be published shortly by the Council for British Archaeology. .
He is to deliver the Rhind Lectures to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 2013. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Societies of Antiquaries of London and Scotland; he was appointed OBE in 2008.
Publications (Since 2000)
Scottish Abbeys and Priories, London, 2nd ed. 2000
‘The medieval building’, in Jane Geddes (ed.), King’s College, Aberdeen, 1500-2000, Aberdeen, 2000
‘Paisley Abbey Church: the medieval architecture’, in John Malden (ed.), The Monastery and Abbey of Paisley, Paisley, 2000
‘Medieval churches, abbeys and cathedrals’, in Donald Omand (ed.), The Fife book, Edinburgh, 2000
‘A group of late medieval carved wooden panels in Perth Museum and Art Gallery – their drovenance and date’, (with Anne Crone and Mark Hall) Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, vol. 6, 2000
Elgin Cathedral, Edinburgh, 2001
The conservation of architectural ancient monuments in Scotland, guidance on principles, Edinburgh, 2001
Stirling Castle, the restoration of the Great Hall, (editor and contributor), York, 2001
‘Churches to 1560’, in Michael Lynch (ed.), The Oxford companion to Scottish history, Oxford, 2001
Scottish medieval churches, architecture and furnishings, Stroud, 2002, (2nd ed. 2004)
The Cistercian abbeys of Britain, (with others) London, 2nd ed. 2002
‘Robert Reid and the early involvement of the state in the care of Scottish ecclesiastical buildings and sites’, Antiquaries Journal, vol 8, 2002
‘Dunblane Cathedral’, ‘Stirling Castle’, ‘Stirling Holy Rude’, ‘Stirling Argyll’s Lodging’, in John Gifford and Frank Walker, The buildings of Scotland, Stirling and Central Scotland, New Haven and London, 2002
Glasgow’s great glass experiment, (editor and contributor), Edinburgh, 2003
‘Arbroath Abbey, a note on its architecture and early conservation history’, in Geoffrey Barrow (ed.), The Declaration of Arbroath, history significance, setting, Edinburgh, 2003
‘The architectural context of the Border abbey churches in the twelfth and thirteenth Centuries’, in John Gillingham (ed.), Anglo Norman studies XXV, Boydell Press, 2003
‘Reliving bygone glories?: the revival of earlier architectural forms in Scottish late medieval church architecture’, Journal of the British Archaeological Journal, vol. 156, 2003
‘The buildings of Scone Abbey’, in Richard Welander and David Breeze (eds), The Stone of Destiny, artefact and icon, Edinburgh, 2003
Melrose Abbey, (with Richard Oram), Stroud, 2004
‘Culross Abbey’, in Terryl Kinder (ed.) Perspectives for an architecture of solitude, Turnhout, 2004
‘John Morow’, ‘William Wallace’, in New dictionary of national biography, Oxford, 2004
Royal Dunfermline, (editor and contributor), Edinburgh, 2005
Dryburgh Abbey, (with Richard Oram), Stroud, 2005
‘The Perth Charterhouse’, (with Derek Hall) Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, vol. 11, 2005
‘Medieval masons’, in Trevor Ashwin and Alan Davison (eds), An historical atlas of Norfolk, 3rd ed., Chichester, 2005
The buildings of Scotland, Borders, (with Kitty Cruft and John Dunbar) New Haven and London, 2006
‘The architectural framework for the cult of saints, some Scottish examples’, in Debra Higgs Strickland (ed.) Images of medieval sanctity: essays in honour of Gary Dickson, Leiden, 2007
‘Gothic or Classical? The continuity of medieval forms in Scottish church architecture’, in Rudolf Suntrup and Jan R. Veenstra (eds.) Kinstruktion der Gegenwart und Zukunft; Shaping the present and the future, Frankfurt, 2008
‘Snettisham Church’, in John McNeill (ed.), King’s Lynn and the Fens, medieval art, architecture and archaeology (British Archaeological Association transactions XXXI), Leeds, 2008
‘The Cistercian abbey of Deer’, in Katherine Forsyth (ed.) Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin, 2008
‘The architecture and planning of the priory’, in Peter Yeoman (ed.) Excavations at St Ethernan’s Monastery, Isle of May, Fife, 1992-7, Perth, 2008
‘Stirling Castle and the architecture of Scottish kingship in the late middle ages’, in Tim Ayers (ed.), The history of British art 600-1600, London, 2008
‘Balmerino Abbey; the architecture.’ Citeaux, vol 59, 2008
The architecture of the Scottish medieval Church, New Haven and London, 2011
Forthcoming publications
Renewed life for Scottish castles (with Allan Rutherford)
‘An architectural analysis of the church and related buildings on the Brough of Birsay’, in C.C. Morris (ed.) The Birsay Bay Project, vol. 3
‘The Gothic and later work at Durham Cathedral,’ volume on Durham Cathedral
‘The architecture of Tynemouth Priory Church,’ conference transactions of the British Archaeological Association
‘The architecture of the Tironensian order’, conference transactions, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education
‘Scottish barrel-vaulted churches of the later middle ages’, a forthcoming festschrift
Contributions to various Buildings of Scotland volumes
Contributions to Grove encyclopaedia of mediaval art
Contributions to various excavation reports
Representation on outside bodies
National Trust for Scotland, chair of archaeology panel
Durham Cathedral Fabric Committee member
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture committee member
Dalrymple Donaldson Trust trustee
Scottish Episcopal Church Provincial and St Andrews Diocesan Buildings Committee member
Selection of Books
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The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church |  |
Dryburgh Abbey |
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Melrose Abbey |
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Stirling Castle, The restoration of the Great Hall |  |
Scottish Medieval Churches: Architecture and Furnishings |