Discovering mystery masquerading as mundane!
In the final event in the 2025-26 Triskele Heritage lecture series, we will take a look at an architectural feature that is almost never considered – the corridor. We walk down them most days of our lives at home, at school, at work, at the shops, or at the pub. However, because they are such a familiar and functional part of a building, we perhaps do not think too much about them.
Corridors have a long and ancient history and this talk will trace their development, use, and status. We’ll look at cross-passages in ordinary mediaeval houses, galleries in ancient pubs, and painted corridors in Tudor halls. There will also be consideration of the social meaning of corridors to occupants and visitors to buildings. Were you allowed to walk down every corridor? Were some doors off-limits? How did you know where you could walk? The corridor might seem mundane in the twenty-first century but we will take the long view and reveal many a mediaeval mystery!
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