Phillip Lindley : Tudor Renaissance Monuments Deconstructed and Reconstructed: 3D Laser scanning and the Tombs of the Dukes of Norfolk

Slides accompanying this talk can be accessed at http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/P%20Lindley%20Presentation.pdfThis lecture will examine the value of 3D laser scanning of artefacts for the visualisation of the past, using the Tudor monuments of the dukes of Norfolk as a case studyUntil its dissolution by Henry VIII in 1540, Thetford Priory was the dynastic mausoleum of the dukes of Norfolk. In 1539, some of the finest sculptors in the country were at work carving monuments for Thomas Howard, the third duke, and for his son-in-law, Henry VIII ’s bastard, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond. After he had failed to stave off the priory’s dissolution, Howard decided to move the still incomplete monuments to the parish church of St Michael, Framlingham in Suffolk and to rebuild the chancel to house them. Pending that reconstruction, some tomb components were stored in his great house at Kenninghall but other pieces were abandoned at Thetford.Before the monuments could be m