Monthly Talk – Boom and Bust in Medieval Lavenham

by guest speaker, Jane Gosling

The beautiful timber framed buildings for which Lavenham is so famous are the legacy of a thriving industry in cloth production. Its merchants made Lavenham one of the wealthiest towns in Tudor England.

This talk by Jane Gosling, an Architectural Historian and former manager of the National Trust’s Guildhall, explores their rise to fame, the fine houses they left behind, and the inevitable crash that followed.