# Jonathan Foyle

Jonathan Foyle is a British architectural historian, broadcaster and advocate for heritage sites. He is also an artist.

## Background

Foyle grew up in Market Deeping in Lincolnshire and attended The Deepings School. He has a Master of Arts from the Courtauld Institute of Art where he trained as an architect, and later worked for a year surveying the architectural details and structure of Canterbury Cathedral. He then became Curator of Historic Buildings for Historic Royal Palaces for eight years. During this time Foyle produced a thesis on the early history of Hampton Court and received a doctorate from the University of Reading in 2002. He also has an honorary degree in Conservation and Restoration from the University of Lincoln.

### Education

Honorary degree in Conservation and Restoration (2011) University of Lincoln Ph.D Archaeology, University of Reading (2002) (Won British Academy Reckitt Prize ) Dipl.Arch (Postgraduate Diploma in Architecture) Canterbury School of Architecture (1995) M.A. History of Art 1560–1660 Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1993) B.A. (Hons) 2:1 Architecture Canterbury School of Architecture (1992) National Diploma in Art and Design Lincoln College of Art (1989)

## Career

Foyle has written many scholarly papers and additionally contributed articles for a number of newspapers and popular magazines.
He is perhaps best known as a communicator on history. He has taught and lectured in Britain and around the world and has appeared and presented a number of television broadcasts.
Since 2002, he has presented films for Channel 4, the BBC, the History Channel, ITN, Lion and Discovery Channels. In 2009 he presented a series on Henry VIII as art patron. In 2010 he presented a television series Climbing Great Buildings.
In 2007 Foyle accepted the position of Chief Executive of World Monuments Fund Britain, the UK arm of a global charity, which aims to secure imperilled architectural sites for future generations.

## Television
### BBC One

* Inside Out (Feb. 2010), reporter on Gloucestershire’s pyramids
* The One Show (2009), reporter on historic architecture

### BBC Two

* Climbing Great Buildings (2010), presenter, 15-part series, along with climber Lucy Creamer
* The People’s Museum (2006), reporter
* History Mysteries (2005), series co-presenter
* Meet The Ancestors: The Lost Palace Of Hampton Court (2002), specialist

### BBC Four

* People’s Palaces: The Golden Age Of Civic Architecture (2010) 2 x 1 hour, presenter
* Henry VIII: Patron Or Plunderer? (2009) 2 x 1 hour, presenter

### Channel 4

* Time Team Special: Henry VIII's Lost Palaces (2009), specialist contributor
* Time Team Special: The Arcadian Garden (2007), specialist contributor
* Time Team Special: The Royal Palaces: Buckingham Palace (2006), specialist contributor
* Time Team (2003– ), specialist contributor, including Kew Palace, Syon House, Greenwich Palace, Queenborough Castle, Hunstrete House, Chenies Manor

### History Channel US

* Lost Worlds: The Pyramids (2008), investigator
* Lost Worlds: The Sphinx (2008), investigator
* Lost Worlds: The Vikings (2007), investigator
* Lost Worlds: Henry VIII (2007), investigator

### Five

* County Secrets (2008) 10-part series, presenter

### History Channel UK

* Hidden House History (2006), co-presenter

## Professional history

* 2007–present chief Executive, World Monuments Fund Britain
* 2003–2007 freelance historian, teacher, presenter, consultant
* 1996–2003 curator of Historic Buildings, Hampton Court and Kew Palaces, Historic Royal Palaces
* 1995–1996 assistant to the Surveyor of the Fabric, Canterbury Cathedral

## Publications

* The Architecture of Canterbury Cathedral Scala (2012)
* ‘Conservation areas in China: the case of the Juanqinzhai in Beijing’ with Henry Tzu-Ng
English Heritage Conservation Bulletin 62 (2009)
* ‘Some examples of external colouration on English brick buildings, c. 1500–1650’
Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles ‘Couleurs de l'architecture’(2002)
* 'A Reconstruction of Thomas Wolsey's Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace'
Architectural History Vol 45 (2002) pp. 128–58
Illustrations for:
* ‘Interpretations of the Rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral, 1174–1186: Archaeological and Historical Evidence’
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1997, Peter Draper