Publications & Research

Publications and research

Current research

• St Christopher wall painting book
• Wall paintings in Bristol article, including Canynges’ House and Westbury-on-Trym
• Salisbury Cathedral Hungerford monuments and wall paintings
• Lifelong Learning and archives

Articles, books and chapters

Plant, A., Pridgeon, E., ‘John Piper’s Memorial Window for Benjamin Britten, Aldeburgh’ (2027) (forthcoming article).

Pridgeon, E., ‘Chantry Chapels and Wall Paintings in Context: Function and Location at South Newington’, (2027) (forthcoming article).

Pridgeon, E., ‘Deciphering Monuments, Paintings and Chantries: St Mary Redcliffe, Canynges and Late Medieval Bristol’, (2027) (forthcoming article).

Gill, M., Pridgeon, E., ‘Reconstructing Stoke Dry: Murals, Memorialisation and Myth in Fourteenth Century Rutland’, BAA Conference Proceedings Leicester and Leicestershire (2026) (forthcoming article).

Gill, M., Pridgeon, E., ‘The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead in English Wall Painting: International Sources and Local Meanings (c.1300 to the Reformation)’, in Death and the Danse Macabre in Late Medieval Art: Dissemination, Reception, Evidence, Oosterwijk, S., Ungeheuer, L., Léglu, C., (Brill 2026) (book chapter).

Pridgeon, E. (et al), ‘Turmoil and Joy: Preserving and Working with an Archive of Single Parent Activism’, Women’s History Review (Special Issue on Archiving Feminism (2023).

Pridgeon, E., ‘Transforming Museum Learning: The Case of Pro Artium’, Journal of Education in Museums, Vol. 27 (2021).

Eicker, E., Pridgeon, E., Vaknin, J., ‘Archiving the First World War: The 14-18 NOW Programme’, ARC Magazine (2021).

Pridgeon, E., Gill., M., ‘Marking Time and Space: The Medieval Wall Paintings at Raunds Church, Northamptonshire’, Proceedings of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium 2018 (Shaun Tyas 2019).

Pridgeon, E., ‘Capturing and Preserving Voiceless Communities: The Spare Tyre Theatre Company Archive, ARC Magazine (2018).

Pridgeon, E., Sharp, S., ‘Patronage and Function: The Medieval Wall Paintings at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire’, Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies (2016).

Pridgeon, E., ‘Researching Medieval Wall Paintings: A Guide to Archival and Unpublished Sources in England and Wales’, The Local Historian, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2015).

Jones, H., Pridgeon, E., ‘Collaboration in Lifelong Learning: Oxfordshire History Centre and the University of Leicester’, ARC Magazine (2015).

Pridgeon, E., ‘In Search of a Home: The Story of the Church Monuments Society Archive’, ARC Magazine (2015).

Plant, A., Pridgeon, E., ‘Archaeological Chess: John Piper and the Wiltshire Museum Window’, Wiltshire Studies, Vol. 107 (2014).

Pridgeon, E., ‘Following the ARA Conference Remotely’. ARC Magazine (2014).

Pridgeon, E., ‘GreenTrad: Folk Music Heritage in South-East London’ , ARC Magazine (2014).

Dawson, D., Pridgeon, E., ‘Education and Outreach at the Science Museum Library and Archives’, ARC Magazine (2013),

Pridgeon, E., ‘National and International Trends in Hampshire Churches: A Chronology of St Christopher Wall Painting, c.1250-c.1530’, Hampshire Studies, Vol. 68 (2013), 85-118.

Pridgeon, E, Rosewell, R., ‘The Miracle of the Horseshoe: A Fifteenth Century Wall Painting at Highworth Church, Wiltshire’, Wiltshire Studies, Vol. 105 (2012), 157-167.

Pridgeon, E., ‘Freestone Military Effigy’ at Hungerford, Berkshire’, Church Monuments Society Monument of the Month (January 2011).

Pridgeon, E., ‘The Lovell Tomb at Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire’, Church Monuments Society Monument of the Month (April 2010).

Pridgeon, E, ‘The Function of St Christopher Imagery in Medieval Churches, c.1250 to c.1525: Wall Painting and Brass’, Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, Vol.18.1 (2009), 2-24.

Pridgeon, E., ‘Various Entries’, in Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia, Jestice, P. G., Ed., 3 Vols. (Abc-Clio 2004).

Pridgeon, E., ‘The Lydiard Tregoze St Christopher Wall Painting’, Friends of Lydiard Tregoze Journal (2002)..

Book Reviews 

Review of: Heritage, C., Cemeteries and Graveyards: A Guide for Local and Family Historians in England and Wales 2022, in Church Monuments Society.

Review of: Suggett, R., Temlau Peintiedig: Murluniau a Chroglenni yn Eglwysi Cymru, 1200–1800 / Painted Temples: Wallpaintings and Rood-screens in Welsh Churches, 2021, in Journal of Historic Buildings and Places.

Review of: Dackers, C., ed., Fonthill Recovered: A Cultural History, 2018 in Wiltshire Studies.

Review of: Rosewell, R., Medieval Wall Painting, Oxford 2014, in Journal of the Church Monuments Society.

Review of: Newham, C., Book of Effigies: Photographs of Selected Recumbent Effigies in English Parish Churches, in Journal of the Church Monuments Society.

Review of: Rosewell, R., Stained Glass, Oxford 2012, in Journal of the Church Monuments Society (2013).

Review of: Hart, S., Medieval Church Window Tracery in England, Woodbridge 2010, in Journal of the Church Monuments Society (2013).

Review of: Oosterwijk S., Knöll, S., eds., Mixed Metaphors: The Danse Macabre in Early Modern Europe, Newcastle upon Tyne 2011, in Vidimus, Issue 62.