Contributors and Papers

Peter Forsaith
is Project Co-ordinator at Westminster College, Oxford. His research field is early-Methodist portraiture, and Wesleyan iconography in particular. He is currently studying the correspondence, life, and ministry of the Rev. John Fletcher (1729-1785), Vicar of Madeley, Shropshire. Among his recent publications are 'Every picture tells a story' in City Road Magazine (1997), and the forthcoming 'Samuel Wesley III: A Portrait By John Russell RA', in Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society. Paper: 'The Print and the Pauper: The Portrait Print and Methodist Religious Life in the Late Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries'.

Arie de Groot Drs
is a freelance art historian and a member of the editorial staff of the Bulletin van de Stichting Oude Hollandse Kerken. His research field specialism is the architecture and internal arrangements of Dutch churches, especially the Protestant churches of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth centuries. Among his recent publications are 'Beelden in de Dom van Utrecht in de Zestiende Eeuw', in R Falkenburg and D Meijers e. a. (eds.), Beelden in de Late Middeleeuwen en Renaissance (1994), and 'Internal Arrangements in the Utrecht Cathedral Before and After the Reformation', in E de Bievre (ed.), Utrecht: Britain and the Continent. Archaeology, Art and Architecture (1996). Paper: 'Public or Invisible: Reformed Churches and Dissenting Meeting Houses in the Dutch Republic'.

John Harvey BA MA PhD
is an Art Historian and Practitioner, Professor of Fine Art, and Head of the School of Art, and Director of the Centre for Studies in the Visual Culture of Religion at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His research field is visual and religious culture. His recent publications include The Art of Piety: The Visual Culture of Welsh Nonconformity (1995), and Image of the Invisible: The Visualization of Religion in the Welsh Nonconformist Tradition (1999). Paper: 'Word and Worship: Biblio-centricity and Its Implications for the Form and Decoration of Meeting-Houses and Chapels'.

Bernard Herman PhD 
is Professor of Art History, History, and Urban Affairs at the University of Delaware. His research field is vernacular architecture and landscape studies. He is author of The Stolen House (1982), and co-author of Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (1997). Paper: 'Conforming Landscapes: Architecture, Dissent, and Identity'.

David Holmes BA MA MA PhD
is Professor of Religion at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. His fields of research are Reformation and North American religious history, and church architecture. He has authored A Brief History of the Episcopal Church (1994), and he is a regular contributor to the international scholarly journal the Anglican and Episcopal History. Paper: 'Meeting Houses and Crypto-Nonconformity: The Revival of the Anglican Tradition in Post-Revolutionary Virginia'.

Stephen Hughes BA MPhil FSA
is Head of Survey at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments for Wales. He is joint author of Industrial Archaeology of the Swansea Region (1988), and Buildings in Wales: Glamorgan (1996). Paper: 'The Rise and Fall of Two Chapel Architects of Swansea's Industrial Communities: John Humphrey and Thomas Thomas'.

John Hume BSc, ARCST, FSA, FSAScot, HonFRIAS, OBE
is formerly Inspector of Historic Buildings for Historic Scotland and Hononary Professor in the Faculty of Art, University of Glasgow. His research field is Historic Scottish Churches with particular reference to the period from the Reformation to the present day. Paper: 'The Architecture of Secession Churches in Scotland (and Other Minor Denominations)'.

Ieuan Gwyneth Jones MA DLitt FRHistS
is an Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Swansea, and Sir John Williams Professor of Welsh History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His research field is the social history of Victorian Wales. His recent publications include Communities: Essays in the Social History of Victorian Wales (1987), Mid-Victorian Wales: The Observers and the Observed (1992), and The Cardiganshire County History, Vol. 3, Cardiganshire in Modern Times (1998). Paper: 'Society and Religion in Nineteenth Century Wales'.

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