Warwick's Eastgate for Sale

Who wants to buy a medieval town gate? Warwick's Eastgate will be on the block April 14; the estimated price is £125,000. Locals wonder if the gate, which includes a room accessed via a single stairway below its clock tower and was previously rented to a local school, will attract a buyer given its hefty repair estimate and lack of access for disabled visitors. English Heritage has designated the gate as a Grade-II Listed Building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. These kinds of sales always highlight the ways in which issues of preservation and regulation intersect with contemporary needs and private ownership.
Leamington Spa Courier article
Eastgate on Google Maps

AVISTA Forum Journal

The latest volume has numerous items of interest to historians of medieval architecture.

Hiscock, Nigel. "Patronal Programming in Medieval Abbeys and Cathedrals: the Question of Symbolism." AVISTA Forum Journal 19 (2009) 5-20.

The following are texts of papers presented in the sessions entitled "New Directions in Medieval Architecture" at the Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo in 2009:
Camerlenghi, Nicola. "The Longue Durée and the Life of Buildings." AVISTA Forum Journal 19 (2009) 83-84.
Tallon, Andrew J. "Rethinking Medieval Structure." AVISTA Forum Journal 19 (2009) 85-86.
Reilly, Lisa. The Medieval Design Process at Southwell Minster." AVISTA Forum Journal 19 (2009) 87-89.
Bork, Robert. "Connecting the dots: Toward Geometrical Connoisseurship." AVISTA Forum Journal 19 (2009) 90-92.
McGehee, Abby. The Hand of the Master: Architects and Entrepreneurs in Late Gothic Paris." AVISTA Forum Journal 19 (2009) 93-95.
Davis, Michael T. "Old Questions, New Technologies, Different Voices: Finding Directions for the Study of Medieval Architecture." AVISTA Forum Journal 19 (2009) 95-96.

Additionally, this volume includes summaries of papers delivered at Kalamazoo on topics including medieval urbanism, mapping, castle imagery, and portal design and iconography.

New article on models

Isnard, Isabelle. "Un cas d'utilisation de modèle architectural vers
1300 en Champagne: l'exemple des collégiales Saint-Urbain de Troyes et
Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens de Mussy-sur-Seine." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschicte 73 (1) 2010: 19-40.

Parisian Gothic Show Opening Soon at the Musée de Cluny

Paris, Ville rayonnant, an exposition devoted to the architecture of thirteenth-century Paris, will open February 10 at the Musée National du Moyen Âge in Paris. The show will include material and displays relating to five key buildings of the era: the Sainte-Chapelle, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Notre-Dame, the chapel of the Virgin at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and the refectory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs. Hopefully there will be an associated book?
Introduction on the Cluny website

Excavations at Edinburgh Castle

Archaeologists have discovered part of the late medieval boundary wall and a sixteenth-century defensive spur, structures that were previously known only from early drawings of the castle.
BBC article

Monks Abbey Ruins Closed

The ruins of the former Benedictine priory of Saint Mary Magdalen in Lincoln (locally known as Monks Abbey), founded by Saint Mary's Abbey in York, have been closed to the public due to ongoing problems with vandalism. A permanent two meter fence will be installed.

The priory ruins include three walls of the chancel, likely begun in the late twelfth century; the windows date from a later period and have surviving perpendicular tracery.