Christopher Webster
Research Associate

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Biography

Christopher Webster is an architectural historian who specialises in the buildings of late-Georgian England and has published extensively on the subject.

His interests include the development of the architectural profession in the provinces, issues surrounding architectural style, and ecclesiastical architecture in this period – the subject of his PhD. His Late-Georgian Churches: Anglican Architecture, patronage and church-going in England, 1790-1840 was published in 2022 and reached the shortlist for the prestigious Alice Davies Hitchcock award.

His current project is the career of the architect Charles Watson, who ‘during the first decade of the nineteenth century … was the leading architect in Yorkshire.’

Following a long career in higher education, he has now retired and enjoys his attachment to the University of York as a basis for his on-going research.