Appointment of Dr Linda Monckton as Trustee
Dr Linda Monckton was appointed in February 2026 as an OHCT Trustee. She brings expertise on church buildings and an enthusiasm for our built heritage. Dr Monckton has a first degree in the History of Art, she took an MSc in Historic Conservation at Oxford Brookes and then did a PhD at Warwick on late medieval ecclesiastical architecture in the south-west of England. She worked for six years as an administrator for the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England before moving to English Heritage to be a senior architectural investigator. She has held a number of posts in English Heritage including Head of Research Strategy for Places of Worship and is currently Head of Wellbeing and Heritage looking at the social and health impacts of the historic environment. She has lectured and published books and articles covering topics including church conservation law, medieval architecture and chantries, church pews, architectural fragments, faith and public policy, church closure trends, the public benefit of archaeology, and wellbeing and the historic environment. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She lives in Oxfordshire and continues to work for English Heritage.