Day 8: Recusant Catholics and Teaching and Training
I: Katherine Clark: ‘Politics and Plasterwork: Ornamentation and Iconography in a Northumbrian Country House’ 
Callaly Castle began as a fortified medieval tower house but expanded in size and cultural importance during the early-modern period. This paper will explore one of the Clavering family’s most important renovations to Callaly, the transformation in the 1740s of the old Jacobean hall into a magnificent reception room. While architectural historians have noted the ‘fabulous richness’ of the room, they have ‘read’ the Rococo plasterwork as merely decorative. The paper properly decodes the Jacobite and Catholic iconography encrusting the room and demonstrates some of the ways in which architecture and ornamentation both protected and proclaimed political ambitions and religious loyalties in this period.
Some Suggested Reading
Geoffrey Beard, Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain (London, 1975)
Leigh Ann Craig, ‘Royalty, virtue, and adversity: the cult of King Henry VI’, Albion 35.2 (2003)
Leo Gooch, The Desperate Faction?: The Jacobites of North-East England, 1688-1745 (Hull, 1995)
Christopher Hussey, ‘Callaly Castle, Northumberland’ in Country Life (12, 19 February, 1959)
A. Laing, ‘Foreign decorators and plasterers in England’ in Charles Hind, ed., The Rococo in England: a symposium (London, 1984)
Peter Leach, James Paine (London, 1988)
Nikolaus Pevsner et al., The Buildings of Northumberland (2nd ed., London, 1992)
II: David Clark: ‘Teaching Vernacular Architecture’
Some Suggested Reading
III: Plenary: Workshop on Comparisons in Graduate Training
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