A portrait of Zachary Stewart.

Zachary Stewart

Associate Professor and Associate Department Head; James M. Singleton IV ’66, FAIA, Endowed Professor, Architecture; Faculty Fellow, Center for Heritage Conservation
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Education

  • Ph.D. in Art History and ArchaeologyColumbia University, 2015
  • M.A. in History of ArtCourtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 2008
  • B.Arch. in Architecture and Medieval StudiesUniversity of Notre Dame, 2007

Publications

Between Idealism and Realism: Lawrence Hoey’s Dialectic Approach to English Medieval Architecture
Zachary Stewart, “‘Between Idealism and Realism’: Lawrence Hoey’s Dialectic Approach to English Medieval Architecture,” in American Gothic: Reflections on Gothic Architectural Scholarship in America, 1925–2025, ed. Robert Bork (Leiden: Brill, 2025), 218–229. View Publication
A Late Medieval Inventory from St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich (BL Stowe MS 871): Register, Record, Teaching Resource
Zachary Stewart, “A Late Medieval Inventory from St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich (BL Stowe MS 871): Register, Record, Teaching Resource,” in Collecting, Curating, Assembling: New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages, ed. Emily N. Savage (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024), 211–28. View Publication
The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries, Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 20
Amy E. Gillette and Zachary Stewart, eds., The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries, Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 20 (Leiden: Brill, 2023). View Publication
Introduction: A Meditation on the Art-Historical Fragment
Amy E. Gillette and Zachary Stewart, “Introduction: A Meditation on the Art-Historical Fragment” in The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries, ed. Amy E. Gillette and Zachary Stewart (Leiden: Brill, 2023), 1–8. View Publication
A ‘Parish Church Par Excellence’: The Architecture and Arts of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, from the Conquest to the Reformation
Zachary Stewart, “A ‘Parish Church Par Excellence’: The Architecture and Arts of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, from the Conquest to the Reformation,” in The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries, ed. Amy E. Gillette and Zachary Stewart (Leiden: Brill, 2023), 11–79. View Publication
Towards a Reconstruction of the Mancroft Font Canopy
Zachary Stewart, “Towards a Reconstruction of the Mancroft Font Canopy,” in The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries, ed. Amy E. Gillette and Zachary Stewart (Leiden: Brill, 2023), 191–232. View Publication
The Plague, the Parish, and the Perpendicular Style: Theories of Change in Late Medieval English Architecture from John Aubrey to John Harvey
Zachary Stewart, “The Plague, the Parish, and the Perpendicular Style: Theories of Change in Late Medieval English Architecture from John Aubrey to John Harvey,” in Modernity and Lateness in Medieval Architecture, ed. Alice Isabella Sullivan and Kyle G. Sweeney (Leiden: Brill, 2023). View Publication
An Architecture of Incumbency? Burwell and Beyond
Zachary Stewart, “An Architecture of Incumbency? Burwell and Beyond,” in Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology at Cambridge: College, Church and City, ed. Gabriel Byng and Helen Lunnon, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 44 (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022), 171–87. View Publication
Review. Tim Ayers and Maureen Jurkowski, The Fabric Accounts of St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster, 1292–1396
Zachary Stewart, “Review. Tim Ayers and Maureen Jurkowski, The Fabric Accounts of St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster, 1292–1396,” Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, vol. 97, no. 2 (2022), 472–74. View Publication
Brotherly Rivals: Templars, Hospitallers, and the Architectural Expansion of the Temple Church in London
Zachary Stewart, “Brotherly Rivals: Templars, Hospitallers, and the Architectural Expansion of the Temple Church in London,” The Antiquaries Journal, vol. 101 (2021), 235–68. View Publication
Models, Copies, and Mendicants: The Origins of the Late Medieval English Parish Church in Historiographical Perspective
Zachary Stewart, “Models, Copies, and Mendicants: The Origins of the Late Medieval English Parish Church in Historiographical Perspective,” in Towards an Art History of the Parish Church, 1200–1399, ed. Meg Bernstein (London: Courtauld Books Online, 2021). View Publication
Review. Stephen Murray, Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral
Zachary Stewart, “Review. Stephen Murray, Notre-Dame of Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral,” Journal of the British Archaeological Association, vol. 174 (2021), 198–200. View Publication
Plate 2.27: Hampton Court Palace
Zachary Stewart, “Plate 2.27: Hampton Court Palace,” in Vetusta Monumenta, ed. Noah Heringman, Crystal B. Lake, and Katharina Boehm (online edition published under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2020). View Publication
One and Many: Parish Church Planning in Late Medieval England
Zachary Stewart, “One and Many: Parish Church Planning in Late Medieval England,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 79, no. 3 (2020), 264–85. View Publication
Other Spaces: Medieval Architectural History between Theory and Practice,” in “Are We Post-Theoretical?
Zachary Stewart, “Other Spaces: Medieval Architectural History between Theory and Practice,” in “Are We Post-Theoretical?” ed. Jennifer Borland and Nancy Thompson, special issue, Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, vol. 6 (2020). View Publication
Lesson in Patronage: King Henry III, the Knights Templar, and a Royal Mausoleum at the Temple Church in London
Zachary Stewart, “A Lesson in Patronage: King Henry III, the Knights Templar, and a Royal Mausoleum at the Temple Church in London,” Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, vol. 94, no. 2 (2019), 334–84. View Publication
Tending the Architectural Corpus: A Prehistory
Zachary Stewart, “Tending the Architectural Corpus: A Prehistory,” in “Preserve,” ed. Tricia Stuth and Ted Shelton, special issue, Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 72, no. 2 (2018), 290–93. View Publication

Biography

Zachary Stewart is an architectural historian with dual training in the fields of architecture and art history. He specializes in the material culture of medieval Europe. His research focuses on the buildings, cities, and landscapes of medieval Britain.

Stewart is the author of Building the Parish Church in Late Medieval England: Architecture, Art, and the Collaborative Gothic Monument (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) as well as a co-editor of The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich: Studies of a Medieval Monument over Four Centuries (Brill, 2023), Tributes to T.A. Heslop. From Miniature to Monumental: Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture (Harvey Miller, forthcoming), and Gothic Space: Studies in Celebration of Stephen Murray (Brill, forthcoming). His research on various aspects of medieval building culture has appeared in The Journal of Architectural Education, Speculum, Different Visions, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and The Antiquaries Journal as well as in numerous edited collections.

Stewart has received fellowships, grants, and honors from the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, the American Philosophical Society, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative, and the Arts and Humanities Fellows Program at Texas A&M. In 2021–2022 he was a Senior Fellow in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2022 his article, “One and Many: Parish Church Planning in Late Medieval England” (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 79, no. 3 [2020], 264–85), received the Founders’ Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.