Medieval News

Conservation experts in Norway are conducting tests to see if a solution can be found on how to save important archaeological finds from th...

A 15th century barn that was once threatened with demolition has been restored to its former glory after an award-winning refurbishment. Ti...

Sulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of Sweden. The group behind the resu...

A historic Monmouthshire village’s character will be preserved for future generations, after being designated a conservation area. The de...

Scientists in the US and Italy have borrowed a technique more usually associated with geophysical remote sensing and applied it to medieva...

A medieval monastic gatehouse at Pentney Priory in Norfolk, England, is to be saved, following a £200,000 English Heritage grant for emergen...

The massive 14th-century Westgate Towers in Canterbury will no longer see cars passing through its gate, as city officials start a 12-month ...

Maltese Bus Operator Arriva has announced it will be collaborating with conservation group Din l-Art Ħelwa (DLĦ) on a project focused on the...

Plans to protect the medieval heritage of Canterbury by banning traffic passing through the Westgate Towers have been put forward. The cit...

Conservationists are launching a new bid to safeguard medieval paintings at hundreds of East Anglian churches. They fear rood screens painte...

A section of Hadrian’s Wall has been repaired thanks to funding made available through the Higher Level Stewardship scheme administered by N...

The World Monuments Fund’s President Bonnie Burnham has announced the 2012 World Monuments Watch. Since 1996, the biennial Watch has drawn i...

Workmen have begun removing the cobblestone pathways around the village of Dunster in Somerset. The distinctive cobblestone paths have exist...

Several medieval churches in England have received funding the Heritage Lottery Fund and English Heritage as part of their joint Repair Gran...

The Grade 1 listed building, built between 1403-1412, will be shrouded in scaffolding for approximately 10 weeks so that a survey of it'...

The site where Owain Glyndwr is said to have declared himself prince of Wales is set to undergo conservation work. The announcement by the a...

The Roman Theatre in Cartagena, Spain, and Le Collège des Bernardins in Paris, France were among two of the three Grand Prix winners at the ...

Urgent repairs to three buildings that are the last traces of a lost medieval village in the English county of Durham are now underway, and ...

English Heritage has published its annual Heritage at Risk Register today, which shows a significant slow-down in the number of historic bui...

The Irish government announced last month that the Walled Towns Initiative will receive €850,000 in funding this year. The news came as part...