Amy Gillette (Ph.D., Temple University, 2016) is a research associate at the Barnes Foundation. She has published on pre-modern and modern objects in the Barnes collection, and on images of angels in medieval and Byzantine visual culture.Zachary Stewart (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2015) is Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory and James M. Singleton IV ’66, FAIA, Endowed Professor at Texas A&M University. He has published widely on the art and architecture of medieval Britain.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Tables, Plates, and FiguresContributorsIntroduction: A Meditation on the Art-Historical FragmentAmy Gillette and Zachary StewartPart 1: Settings1 A “Parish Church Par Excellence”: The Architecture and Arts of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, from the Conquest to the ReformationZachary Stewart2 The Treasure House of the Church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: What Factors Best Explain Its Position and Design?Lesley MilnerPart 2: Analyses3 A Technical Study of the Font and Font Canopy at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, in the East Anglian ContextLucy Wrapson4 Four English Carved Panels at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Associated with the Church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: A Technical AnalysisKate Duffy, Jack Hinton, Peggy Olley and Behrooz Salimnejad5 The Challenges of Visualizing Fixed Monuments in Medieval Art and Architectural HistoryBrent R. Fortenberry and Benjamin Baaske6 Toward a Reconstruction of the Mancroft Font CanopyZachary StewartPart 3: Contexts7 English Medieval Timber Church Furniture c.1300–1540Charles Tracy8 Thinking with the Font: Ritual and DramaEllen K. Rentz9 The Microarchitectural Mise-en-Scène of Baptism, c.1200–c.1700: A Short HistoryAchim Timmermann10 Hidden in Plain Sight: How the Complex Iconography of Late-Medieval English Font Covers Saved SomeSarah Blick11 “Gloriously Appareled”: The Ornament of the St. Peter Mancroft CanopyAmy GillettePart 4: Afterlives12 The Afterlife of Late Gothic Furnishings in British Churches and CollectionsKim Woods13 “A Study Close at Hand of These Fine Examples of Gothic Decoration”: The Collecting of English Medieval Woodcarvings in American MuseumsJack HintonAppendix: Technical and Analytical TerminologyPlatesBibliographyIndex

“Together these chapters make for a substantial, well-illustrated book, […]. Its combination of expansive, contextual surveys from across England and Europe and close, interdisciplinary examination of the canopy itself will be of interest to historians of church furniture and liturgy from far beyond the bounds of Norwich.”Gabriel Byng in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, vol. 178 (2025), pp. 205-7. (DOI 10.1080/00681288.2025.2533566)

Amy Gillette (Ph.D., Temple University, 2016) is a research associate at the Barnes Foundation. She has published on pre-modern and modern objects in the Barnes collection, and on images of angels in medieval and Byzantine visual culture.Zachary Stewart (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2015) is Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory and James M. Singleton IV ’66, FAIA, Endowed Professor at Texas A&M University. He has published widely on the art and architecture of medieval Britain.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Tables, Plates, and FiguresContributorsIntroduction: A Meditation on the Art-Historical FragmentAmy Gillette and Zachary StewartPart 1: Settings1 A “Parish Church Par Excellence”: The Architecture and Arts of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, from the Conquest to the ReformationZachary Stewart2 The Treasure House of the Church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: What Factors Best Explain Its Position and Design?Lesley MilnerPart 2: Analyses3 A Technical Study of the Font and Font Canopy at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, in the East Anglian ContextLucy Wrapson4 Four English Carved Panels at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Associated with the Church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: A Technical AnalysisKate Duffy, Jack Hinton, Peggy Olley and Behrooz Salimnejad5 The Challenges of Visualizing Fixed Monuments in Medieval Art and Architectural HistoryBrent R. Fortenberry and Benjamin Baaske6 Toward a Reconstruction of the Mancroft Font CanopyZachary StewartPart 3: Contexts7 English Medieval Timber Church Furniture c.1300–1540Charles Tracy8 Thinking with the Font: Ritual and DramaEllen K. Rentz9 The Microarchitectural Mise-en-Scène of Baptism, c.1200–c.1700: A Short HistoryAchim Timmermann10 Hidden in Plain Sight: How the Complex Iconography of Late-Medieval English Font Covers Saved SomeSarah Blick11 “Gloriously Appareled”: The Ornament of the St. Peter Mancroft CanopyAmy GillettePart 4: Afterlives12 The Afterlife of Late Gothic Furnishings in British Churches and CollectionsKim Woods13 “A Study Close at Hand of These Fine Examples of Gothic Decoration”: The Collecting of English Medieval Woodcarvings in American MuseumsJack HintonAppendix: Technical and Analytical TerminologyPlatesBibliographyIndex

“Together these chapters make for a substantial, well-illustrated book, […]. Its combination of expansive, contextual surveys from across England and Europe and close, interdisciplinary examination of the canopy itself will be of interest to historians of church furniture and liturgy from far beyond the bounds of Norwich.”Gabriel Byng in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, vol. 178 (2025), pp. 205-7. (DOI 10.1080/00681288.2025.2533566)

Amy Gillette (Ph.D., Temple University, 2016) is a research associate at the Barnes Foundation. She has published on pre-modern and modern objects in the Barnes collection, and on images of angels in medieval and Byzantine visual culture.Zachary Stewart (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2015) is Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory and James M. Singleton IV ’66, FAIA, Endowed Professor at Texas A&M University. He has published widely on the art and architecture of medieval Britain.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Tables, Plates, and FiguresContributorsIntroduction: A Meditation on the Art-Historical FragmentAmy Gillette and Zachary StewartPart 1: Settings1 A “Parish Church Par Excellence”: The Architecture and Arts of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, from the Conquest to the ReformationZachary Stewart2 The Treasure House of the Church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: What Factors Best Explain Its Position and Design?Lesley MilnerPart 2: Analyses3 A Technical Study of the Font and Font Canopy at St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, in the East Anglian ContextLucy Wrapson4 Four English Carved Panels at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Associated with the Church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: A Technical AnalysisKate Duffy, Jack Hinton, Peggy Olley and Behrooz Salimnejad5 The Challenges of Visualizing Fixed Monuments in Medieval Art and Architectural HistoryBrent R. Fortenberry and Benjamin Baaske6 Toward a Reconstruction of the Mancroft Font CanopyZachary StewartPart 3: Contexts7 English Medieval Timber Church Furniture c.1300–1540Charles Tracy8 Thinking with the Font: Ritual and DramaEllen K. Rentz9 The Microarchitectural Mise-en-Scène of Baptism, c.1200–c.1700: A Short HistoryAchim Timmermann10 Hidden in Plain Sight: How the Complex Iconography of Late-Medieval English Font Covers Saved SomeSarah Blick11 “Gloriously Appareled”: The Ornament of the St. Peter Mancroft CanopyAmy GillettePart 4: Afterlives12 The Afterlife of Late Gothic Furnishings in British Churches and CollectionsKim Woods13 “A Study Close at Hand of These Fine Examples of Gothic Decoration”: The Collecting of English Medieval Woodcarvings in American MuseumsJack HintonAppendix: Technical and Analytical TerminologyPlatesBibliographyIndex

“Together these chapters make for a substantial, well-illustrated book, […]. Its combination of expansive, contextual surveys from across England and Europe and close, interdisciplinary examination of the canopy itself will be of interest to historians of church furniture and liturgy from far beyond the bounds of Norwich.”Gabriel Byng in Journal of the British Archaeological Association, vol. 178 (2025), pp. 205-7. (DOI 10.1080/00681288.2025.2533566)