Events and Timeline

Godly Governance: Religion and Political Culture in the Early Modern World, c.1500-1750, Humanities Research Centre, University of York. This session addresses key themes surrounding the use of St Stephen's from the close of the medieval era to the rise of the early modern period. Central to the discussion are the roles of the College of canons as a component part of late medieval kingship, and the later association between the Commons as a collective body and the chamber that housed them. The College's last dean, John Chamber, is also a significant figure in the transition from sacred to secular usage.

Palace of Westminster

Department of History of Art, University of York. Dr James Jago explores the political career of William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons during the Long Parliament and Commonwealth, and what light his private chapel at Burford Priory, Oxfordshire throws upon his posthumous reputation. This little-known building is presented as an articulate response to notions of the sacred in the seventeenth century and as a deeply personal statement by its patron.