26 April 1938),[1] a London born medievalist and Keeper Emeritus of Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum, is recognised as a leading authority on Romanesque and Gothic art and sculpture.
[1] During this time Stratford not only published a number of books and articles but was also on the Selection Committee for the exhibition English Romanesque Art 1066–1200 held at the Hayward Gallery, London in 1984,[6] for which George Zarnecki was the lead curator.
[7] Stratford and Zarnecki worked together again in 1988 when they were instrumental in founding the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Great Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) following their submission of a proposal for funding to the British Academy[8] who continue to oversee the project.
Stratford later asked Walsh to meet him at the British Museum and invited him to participate in a new project involving the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy and the publication of the findings of the excavation work.
He was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 1998[14] and Visiting Professor of medieval art and archaeology at the École Nationale des Chartes in Paris in 2002/3.