Dr Peter Lindfield

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FSA, AFHEA, MA (Hons), MLitt, PhD (St And)

2024

• Lindfield, P. 2024. Thomas Gray’s understanding and reviving of historical architecture. In: Abbott, R. and Levinson, E. eds. Thomas Gray Among the Disciplines. Abingdon: Routledge
• Lindfield, P. 2024. A Royal Tudor Bed and A Northern Rogue—Exhibition Booklet (Chetham's Library, Manchester, 13 August 2024–11 September 2024). Chetham's Library, Manchester, 13 August - 11 September 2024.
• Lindfield, P. 2024. Interpretation Panels for 'A Tudor Royal Bed and A Northern Rogue' exhibition at Chetham's Library, Manchester, 13 August 2024–11 September 2024. [Online]. Chetham's Library Blog website: Chetham's Library, Manchester. Available at: https://library.chethams.com/blog/a-royal-tudor-bed-and-a-northern-rogue/
• Lindfield, P. N. 2024. Links to Pugin: George Shaw at Gawthorpe Hall. Present State: The Newsletter of The Pugin Society 21(Spring), pp. 17-18.
• Lindfield, P. 2024. The Thomas Stanley bed. Regional Furniture Society Newsletter 83
• Lindfield, P. 2024. Arthurian art, illustration and material culture, 1500–1800. In: Radulescu, R. ed. The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture., Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

2023

• Coutu, J., Stobart, J. and Lindfield, P. N. eds. 2023. Politics and the English country house, 1688–1800. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Lindfield, P. N. 2023. John Carter FSA (1748–1817): A new corpus of drawings, and the painted chamber. Visual Culture in Britain (10.1080/14714787.2022.2094456)
• Lindfield, P. N. 2023. A Corpus of the arms of King Edward VI. The Coat of Arms 6(240), pp. 198-218.
• Lindfield, P. N. ed. 2023. The marriage bed of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York: A masterpiece of Tudor craftsmanship. Oxbow Books.

2022

• Lindfield, P. 2022. In Bed with the Tudors. History Today 72(11), pp. 22-24.
• Lindfield, P. 2022. ‘pierced and perforated carving, as fine as the best cathedral screen work’: antiquarianism and faking Tudor furniture in the 1840s. Journal of the British Archaeological Association 175(1), pp. 266-295. (10.1080/00681288.2022.2096758)
• Robertson, F. and Lindfield, P. N. eds. 2022. The display of heraldry: the heraldic imagination in arts and culture. Bristol: The Heraldry Society. (10.1017/S0003581521000421)
• Lindfield, P. N. 2022. Arthurian imagination in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British art. In: Coldham-Fussell, V., Edlich-Muth, M. and Ward, R. eds. The Arthurian World. Vol. 22. Routledge, pp. 363-382.
• Lindfield, P. 2022. George Shaw Revisited: Ancient Oak, and Beds. Furniture History Society Newsletter(225), pp. 2-12.
• Lindfield, P. 2022. New thoughts on the Henry VII Chapel high altar canopy. Journal of Historic Buildings & Places 1, pp. 29-47.
• Lindfield, P. 2022. Unbuilt Strawberry Hill. Shaun Tyas.
• Lindfield, P. 2022. A 'Royal' Sideboard for Chetham's Library: Spolia, Design, and Historical Associations. Regional Furniture Society
• Lindfield, P. 2022. The Thomas Stanley Bed and a related corpus of furniture from Tudor Lancashire. Regional Furniture: the journal of the Regional Furniture Society 36, pp. 23-52.
• Lindfield, P. 2022. Transformation of heraldic decoration: the ‘Radcliffe Bed’. The Coat of Arms 5(239), pp. 108-119.

2021

• Lindfield, P. 2021. The mantled hour-glass escutcheon: A snapshot of court fashion c.1480–1510?. The Heraldry Gazette 162, pp. 9-11.
• Lindfield, P. and Foyle, J. 2021. A forger’s folly?: George Shaw’s productions for Chetham’s Library, Manchester. The British Art Journal 21(3), pp. 42-50.
• Lindfield, P. 2021. Heraldic Forgery: The Case of George Shaw. The Coat of Arms 4(238), pp. 177-204.
• Lindfield, P. 2021. Heraldic depictions of royal continuity. Society of Court Studies 2021(Spring), pp. 4-6.
• Lindfield, P. 2021. More Gothic furniture: MS Bodl. 264. Regional Furniture Society Newsletter(74), pp. 8-9.

2020

• Lindfield, P. 2020. Gothic revival architecture before Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. In: Wright, A. and Townshend, D. eds. The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Volume 1: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century., Vol. 1. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press, pp. 97-119., (10.1017/9781108561044.005)
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Building a civic Gothic palace for Britain’s cotton empire: the architecture of Manchester town hall. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/07/building-a-civic-gothic-palace-for-britains-cotton-empire-the-architecture-of-manchester-town-hall-b1295
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Bristol’s Gothic Baptist Chapel: Buckingham Chapel. [Online]. Visit Bristol: Visit Bristol. Available at: https://visitbristol.co.uk/blog/read/2020/07/bristols-gothic-baptist-chapel-buckingham-chapel-b1296
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Furnishing the Minshull Street city police and session courts. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/05/furnishing-the-minshull-street-city-police-and-session-courts-b1236
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. A hotchpotch of History: Sacred Trinity, Salford. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/05/a-hotchpotch-of-history-sacred-trinity-salford-b1216
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Cottonopolis: Reaching to the sky - the history behind some of Greater Manchester's Gothic towers. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/05/cottonopolis-reaching-to-the-sky-the-history-behind-some-of-greater-manchesters-gothic-towers-b1209
• Lindfield, P. 2020. Northern Gothic: James Wyatt’s work for the Bishop of Durham. The British Art Journal: the research journal of British art studies 21(2), pp. 36-43.
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Gothic’s ‘Constitution’: The Great Hall at The University of Manchester. [Online]. Haunt Manchester Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/03/gothics-constitution-the-great-hall-at-the-university-of-manchester-b1119
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Gothic beyond architecture: Manchester Cathedral. [Online]. Haunt Manchester Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/03/gothic-beyond-architecture-manchester-cathedral-b1109
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. A ‘Bastard’ building; a child of Strawberry [Hill] uglier than its parent: St John’s Church, Deansgate. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/03/a-bastard-building-a-child-of-strawberry-hill-uglier-than-its-parent-st-johns-church-deansgate-b1106
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. A hidden gem in Salford: Arlington House, Bloom Street. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/02/a-hidden-gem-in-salford-arlington-house-bloom-street-b1098
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Gothic transformations: A Wesleyan Hall turned commercial venture—Albert’s Schloss and Albert Hall, 27 Peter Street. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/02/gothic-transformations-a-wesleyan-hall-turned-commercial-venture-alberts-schloss-and-albert-hall-27-peter-street-b1086
• Lindfield, P. 2020. The rule of Gothic: City police and Session Courts, Minshull Street. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/02/the-rule-of-gothic-city-police-and-session-courts-minshull-street-b1080
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. High Victorian Gothic: Thomas Worthington’s Venetian Hall at the heart of Manchester. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/01/high-victorian-gothic-thomas-worthingtons-venetian-hall-at-the-heart-of-manchester-b1073
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Layers of Gothic: A jewel in Salford’s Crown—Ordsall Hall. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/01/layers-of-gothic-a-jewel-in-salfords-crown-ordsall-hall-b1067
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. A Mancunian gothic Sunday school: St Matthew’s. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/01/a-mancunian-gothic-sunday-school-st-matthews-b1060
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. The real cost of heritage: preserving our Gothic buildings. [Online]. Visit Manchester Website: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/04/the-real-cost-of-heritage-preserving-our-gothic-buildings-b1197
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Vetusta Monumenta; Volume 2, Plate 5: View of the Savoy from the Thames. [Online]. Vetusta Monumenta: Ancient Monuments, a Digital Edition: Society of Antiquaries of London. Available at: https://scalar.missouri.edu/vm/vol2plate5-view-of-savoy
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Manchester’s Modern Gothic in St Peter’s Square. [Online]. Visit Manchester Website: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/02/manchesters-modern-gothic-in-st-peters-square-b1100
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Manchester’s ‘Renaissance Gothic’ Building?: Former Refuge Assurance Company Offices—now Kimpton Clocktower Hotel. [Online]. Visit Manchester Website: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/04/manchesters-renaissance-gothic-building-former-refuge-assurance-company-offices-now-kimpton-clocktower-hotel-b1184
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Manchester’s Twentieth-Century Library: The John Rylands Library. [Online]. Visit Manchester Website: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/06/manchesters-twentieth-century-library-the-john-rylands-library-b1263
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Moving Manchester’s ‘Tudor’ Shambles. [Online]. Visit Manchester Website: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/06/moving-manchesters-tudor-shambles-b1244
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. St Chad’s, Rochdale: Where Medieval and Victorian Gothic Collide. [Online]. Visit Manchester Website: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/05/st-chads-rochdale-where-medieval-and-victorian-gothic-collide-b1201
• Lindfield, P. 2020. ‘Bastard’ gothic’s survival in Georgian Britain. The Georgian Group Journal 28, pp. 123-126.
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Wait! What? St Philips, Salford, is a Gothic building? Never!. [Online]. Visit Manchester: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/04/wait-what-st-philips-salford-is-a-gothic-building-never-b1141
• Lindfield, P. 2020. Vetusta Monumenta; Volume 2, Plate 14: A plan of the ground and buildings in the Strand, called the Savoy, taken in the year 1736.. [Commentary on plate and plan]. Available at: https://scalar.missouri.edu/vm/vol2plate14-plan-of-the-savoy
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. The Zenith of Manchester’s Gothic: Chetham’s Library. [Online]. Visit Manchester Website: Visit Manchester. Available at: https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/06/the-zenith-of-manchesters-gothic-chethams-library-b1238
• Lindfield, P. N. 2020. Thomas Barritt of Manchester. [Online]. Chetham's Library Website: Chetham's Library. Available at: https://library.chethams.com/from-home/thomas-barritt-of-manchester/

2019

• Lindfield, P. 2019. A ‘classical goth’: Robert Adam’s engagement with medieval architecture. In: Thom, C. ed. Robert Adam and His Brothers: New Light on Britain's Leading Architectural Family. Architectural History Historic England
• Lindfield, P. 2019. Lancashire’s armoury: Thomas Barritt, saddler-antiquary. In: Robertson, F. and Lindfield, P. eds. The Display of Heraldry: The Heraldic Imagination in Arts and Culture. Vol. 9. London, UK: The Heraldry Society, pp. 156-175.

2018

• Lindfield, P. and Townshend, D. 2018. Reading Vathek and Fonthill Abbey: William Beckford’s architectural imagination. In: Dakers, C. ed. Fonthill Recovered: A Cultural History. Vol. 16. UCL Press, pp. 284-301., (10.14324/111.9781787350458)
• Lindfield, P. 2018. Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill house (1749): architectural gothic. In: Bacon, S. ed. The Gothic: A Reader. Genre and Film Companions Peter Lang UK, pp. 153-160., (10.3726/b13432)

2017

• Lindfield, P. 2017. The panelled heraldic apartment of Horace Walpole (1717–1797) at Strawberry Hill. The British Art Journal: the research journal of British art studies 18(3), pp. 92-98.
• Lindfield, P. N. 2017. Imagining the undefined castle in the Castle of Otranto: engravings and interpretations. Image & Narrative 18(3), pp. 46-63.
• Lindfield, P. N. 2017. William Porden’s state bed for Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Regional Furniture: the journal of the Regional Furniture Society 31, pp. 1-10.
• Lindfield, P. 2017. A.W.N. Pugin's "True Principles" Gothic Furniture: Evolutionary, Revolutionary, Reactionary?. In: Brittain-Catlin, T., De Maeyer, J. and Bressani, M. eds. Gothic Revival Worldwide: A.W.N. Pugin's Global Influence. KADOC Artes Leuven University Press, pp. 214-228.
• Lindfield, P. N. 2017. Rediscovering Lee Priory’s lost library ante-chamber. The Georgian Group Journal 25, pp. 207-212.

2016

• Lindfield, P. N. 2016. A further allusion to Strawberry Hill at Lee Priory, Kent (Letter). Burlington Magazine 158(1365), pp. 979-979.
• Lindfield, P. N. 2016. Triangular chairs at Strawberry Hill: the genuine and the fabricated. Furniture History Society Newsletter(204), pp. 2-6.
• Lindfield, P. 2016. How Gothic buildings became associated with Halloween and the supernatural. [Online]. The Conversstion: The Conversation Trust. Available at: https://theconversation.com/how-gothic-buildings-became-associated-with-halloween-and-the-supernatural-67820
• Lindfield, P. 2016. Georgian gothic: medievalist architecture, furniture and interiors, 1730–1840. Boydell & Brewer.
• Lindfield, P. 2016. Heraldry and the architectural imagination: John Carter's visualisation of the castle of Otranto. The Antiquaries Journal 96, pp. 291-313. (10.1017/S0003581516000226)
• Lindfield, P. 2016. ‘Hung round with the helmets, breast-plates, and swords of our ancestors’: allusions to chivalry in eighteenth-century gothicism?. In: Stevenson, K. and Gribling, B. eds. Chivalry and the Medieval Past. Boydell Press, pp. 61-98.
• Robertson, F. and Lindfield, P. 2016. Introduction : speaking of arms.. In: Robertson, F. and Lindfield, P. eds. Semy-de-Lys: Speaking of Arms, 1400–2016. , pp. 1-6.

2015

• Lindfield, P. N. and Reeve, M. M. 2015. 'A child of strawberry': Thomas Barrett and Lee Priory, Kent. Burlington Magazine 157(1353), pp. 836-842.
• Lindfield, P. 2015. New light on Chippendale at Hestercombe House. Burlington Magazine 157(1348), pp. 452-456.
• Lindfield, P. 2015. National identity through design: the anglicisation of the rococo in mid eighteenth-century Britain. In: Lindfield, P. and Margrave, C. eds. Rule Britannia? Britain and Britishness 1707–1901. Cambridge Scholar Publishing, pp. 3-42.
• Lindfield, P. 2015. A passion for Gothic. Country Life 18 Mar, pp. 110-111.

2014

• Lindfield, P. 2014. Heraldic Antiquarianism: the early work of Thomas Barritt of Manchester. Bodlian Library Record 27(2), pp. 178-202.
• Lindfield, P. 2014. Serious gothic and 'doing the ancient buildings': Batty Langley's ancient architecture and 'principal geometric elevations'. Architectural History 57, pp. 141-173. (10.1017/s0066622x00001404)
• Lindfield, P. 2014. The Countess of Pomfret’s Gothic revival furniture. The Georgian Group Journal 22, pp. 77-94.

2013

• Lindfield, P. 2013. Porden’s Eaton: William Porden’s role in the development of Eaton Hall, Cheshire, 1802–1825. The Georgian Group Journal XXI, pp. 151-165.
• Lindfield, P. N. 2013. The furnishing of a gothic fantasy 1803–1825: Eaton Hall, Cheshire. Furniture History 67, pp. 155-180.

2012

• Lindfield, P. 2012. Georgian gothic fabrications in the antiquarian style: William Kent, Batty Langley and Horace Walpole. In: Cleaver, L. and Lepine, A. eds. Gothic Legacies: Four Centuries of Tradition and Innovation in Art and Architecture. Cambridge Scholars, pp. 38-59.

2007

• Lindfield, P. 2007. The fourteenth century choir stalls at Gloucester Cathedral. Regional Furniture 21, pp. 173-182.