As part of the 900th anniversary celebrations for St. Mary’s Church, Long Wittenham we are delighted to host Dr. Emma Wells for an illuminating insight into the religious architecture that surrounds us.

Emma will be at St. Mary’s Church, at 7:30PM on Saturday 18th June to talk about her fascinating career and her upcoming book ‘Heaven on Earth – The Lives and Legacies of the World’s Greatest Cathedrals’. This work, to be published in July, follows her hugely well-received 2016 book, ‘Pilgrim Routes of the British Isles’ appealing to historians, architecture enthusiasts and walkers.

Dr. Emma is a renowned academic, author and broadcaster within the topics of ecclesiastical & architectural history. She received her BA (Hons) in History of Art and her MA (Dist.) in Buildings Archaeology from the University of York, following up with a PhD from Durham University which focussed on archaeological aspects of pilgrimage in the English medieval church.

She is currently a lecturer at York University, a Research Fellow at Durham University, and is heavily involved in a number of learned societies and academic journals. She is a regular contributor on both television and radio, having appeared or consulted on such television programmes as ‘The History of Home’, ‘The Architecture the Railways Built’ and ‘A Great British Story: From the Dales to the Sea’.

Admission to the talk will be £7.00 payable in cash on the door

Proceeds in aid of the Friends of St. Mary’s Church. For further information contact Dom Jarman on 01865 407416