Dr Jonathan Foyle was born near Stamford and spent his early years in Lincolnshire. He has worked on Canterbury Cathedral, Hampton Court and a host of historic buildings great and small. Author of seven volumes on English cathedrals and great churches, he is best known for broadcasts like BBC’s ‘Climbing Great Buildings’ and Channel 4’s ‘Time Team’. Jonathan is now a lecturer on architectural history and conservation at the University of Bath.
He says, ‘Writing a book on Lincoln Cathedral will always be a challenge: it is grand, but much changed; richly detailed, but under-documented; its familiarity belies its strangeness. This talk explains how hanging upside down by rope in the nave for a BBC programme brought a subconscious epiphany, and with it a thread to hold the narrative together, while offering new insights.’