Current Events

CBA London aim to organise various events throughout the year. These will include lectures, workshops, site visits, excavations etc.

What's been happening recently: CBA Event at Syon House: 12 July 2009

CBA London arranged a visit for members to excavations being undertaken by Harvey Sheldon and colleagues at Birkbeck University of London at Syon House (see below).

CBA London Trustees Sarah Dhanjal and James Doeser met members at the main excavation site in Syon Park. We went on a guided tour of the site by Harvey Sheldon (site director).

More details about the Syon Archaeological Excavation:

Syon, the only Bridgettine Abbey founded in medieval England, was built on Royal lands bordering the Thames in the early fifteenth century. Well endowed, at the time of the Dissolution it was ranked as the tenth wealthiest religious house and the richest nunnery in England. These excavations aim to discover more about the lost church and monastic complex and to investigate the succeeding series of formal gardens, part of the landscape of Syon House, the sixteenth-century aristocratic residence established here in the wake of the Dissolution.