The Painted Tower: Conservation in Context at Longthorpe

From Courtauld Gallery

This display offers an insight into the Courtauld’s current collaboration with English Heritage to conserve the remarkable fourteenth- century wall paintings in Longthorpe Tower in Peterborough. Drawing on material from our National Wall Paintings Survey archive, the display will showcase the pioneering role of the Courtauld’s Conservation Department in safeguarding Britain’s wall paintings and the peculiar challenges of caring for paintings attached to historic buildings....