Professor Richard Fawcett,

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

, FSA,

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

, (died 31 October 2023) was an English academic, a

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

medieval architecture Medieval architecture was the architecture, art and science of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages. The major styles of the period included pre-Romanesque, Romanesque architecture, Romanesque, and Gothic architecture, Gothic. In ...

and

art Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...

, specialising in English and Scottish subject matter. After his PhD on late medieval architecture in Norfolk, in 1974 he began to work at the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments of Historic Scotland. He was elected

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

on 3 March 1979. In 2008 he was appointed

. He died on 31 October 2023 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, and was cremated on 24 November after a service St Peter's Episcopal Church, Kirkcaldy, on Friday.

Select publications

*''The Architecture and Furnishings of Norfolk Churches'' (Norfolk Society, 1974) *''Scottish architecture : from the Accession of the Stewarts to the Reformation 1371-1560'' (Edinburgh University Press, 1994) *''Scottish abbeys and priories'' (Historic Scotland, 1994) *''Scottish Cathedrals'' (Historic Scotland, 1997) *''The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church'' (Yale University Press, 2011)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fawcett, Richard Year of birth missing Place of birth missing 20th-century births 2023 deaths 20th-century English historians 20th-century English male writers 21st-century English historians 21st-century English male writers English architectural historians English art historians Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Officers of the Order of the British Empire Writers from Norfolk