My friend John McNeill, who has died aged 67 after a short illness, was one of the UK’s leading scholars of romanesque architecture and sculpture. He published articles on romanesque architecture from across Europe, especially monastic buildings, with an interest in elements often overlooked: the beasts inhabiting romanesque arches were a particular passion.
Many of those publications were for the British Archaeological Association (BAA), though he produced two excellent volumes in the Blue Guides series, on the Loire and Normandy, and guidebooks for English Heritage.
