Reverend Dr Allan Doig — Board of Trustees

Allan Doig was educated at the University of British Columbia then read Architecture at King’s College, Cambridge where he also completed a PhD. During his research he held Research Fellowships at the University of Hull and the Delft University of Technology, then became Research Officer at the National Art Collections Service in The Hague. He then went to a University Lectureship at the University of Kent, Canterbury. After teaching for a number of years he was ordained and during his curacy at St Helen’s in Abingdon was responsible for the restoration of the fourteenth-century painted ceiling in the Lady Chapel. From his curacy he took up the Chaplaincy of Lady Margaret Hall in the University of Oxford and was elected to a Fellowship in 1996. He has served on the Oxford Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches, the Council for the Care of Churches, English Heritage’s Places of Worship Advisory Committee and the Fabric Advisory Committees of Salisbury and Ely Cathedrals. His books include The Architectural Drawings Collection of King’s College, Cambridge,  Liturgy and Architecture and The History of the Church through its Buildings. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.