CHURCH MONUMENTS SOCIETY - Key Persons


Ann Adams

Job Titles:
  • Joint Editor
Ann Adams will be seeing vol. 38 of the Journal through production as co-editor. After that, she will be stepping down. The Society is very grateful to her for her work on this and the previous volumes.

Brian Gittos

Job Titles:
  • Trustee

Dr Andrew R Sargent

Job Titles:
  • Newsletter Editor

Dr David Carrington

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
Dr David Carrington is a conservator in private practice based in the East Midlands. With some 35 years' experience, specialising in architectural stone and sculpture since 1990, he has a particular interest in church monuments - especially in looking for sustainable and practical methods of conservation within the context of their building environment. He acts as conservation advisor for several cathedrals and has served as Conservation Cases Recorder for the CMS since 2010.

Dr Elizabeth Blood

Job Titles:
  • Events Co - Ordinator

Dr Sophie Oosterwijk - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President
Sophie Oosterwijk was co-editor of Church Monuments for many years and is now a Vice President of the Society. She taught at the universities of Leicester, Manchester and St Andrews, and was a research coordinator for the MeMO (Medieval Memoria Online) project at Utrecht University. She now lives in the Netherlands again, working freelance as a researcher, writer and editor, and as a lecturer for the University of Cambridge, The Arts Society and other organisations. Her numerous publications include Monumental Industry: The Production of Tomb Sculpture in England and Wales in the Long Fourteenth Century (2010, with Sally Badham), Mixed Metaphors: The Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2011, with Stefanie Knöll), and John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its Model, the French Danse Macabre (2021, with Clifford Davidson).

Jean Wilson - VP

Job Titles:
  • Trustee
  • Vice President
  • Profile
Jean Wilson spent her academic career teaching in universities in the UK & USA with a very short stint in China. She has

Miss Hilary Wheeler

Job Titles:
  • Secretary
  • Trustee

Miss Sally Badham - VP

Job Titles:
  • Vice President

Moira Ackers - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • Trustee

Mr Jon Dawson - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer
  • Trustee

Mr Jonathan Trigg

Job Titles:
  • Journal Editor

Mrs Claire Downing

Job Titles:
  • Membership Secretary

Prof Madeleine Gray

Job Titles:
  • Publicity Officer