Nicola Coldstream, FSA, (née Imogen Nicola Carr[1] born June 1942) is a British architectural historian and academic with special interests in the 13th and 14th centuries.
[2] Coldstream became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (elected 11 November 1982)[3] and in 1996 she became Deputy Editor of Grove Dictionary of Art.
[4] In recent years she has held the following positions: Vice-President (Current); Past President (2004–2007) British Archaeological Association;[5] Chairman of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2009–12);[6] Trustee of Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (Current);[7] Member of Church of England’s Cathedrals Fabric Commission (2016–2021)[8] and Sculpture and Furnishings Conservation Committee.
[10] Medieval Architecture (2002), an Oxford History of Art book about the medieval period of architecture was called by Contemporary Review a "beautifully written survey of a long period which does not flag.
[13] Coldstream contributed to the 2011 volume in honour of Paul Crossley, Image, Memory and Devotion: Liber Amicorum Paul Crossley (Studies in Gothic Art 2) edited by Zoë Opačić and Achim Timmermann.