Chris Jones-Jenkins FSA: "Castrum Leonis Roars Again: Reconstruction Holt Castle, Denbighshire".

The talk will detail the visual reconstruction of Holt Castle, from barely surviving ruinous scraps to a fully realised three-dimensional model, utilising detailed analysis of surviving medieval documentation to put flesh on the scant remains.
Chris Jones-Jenkins trained as an architect at the Welsh School of Architecture, but instead of going into practice, worked for a time at the Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans, preparing detailed surveys and architectural drawings of the buildings reconstructed there. Shortly after that he fell into full time work for the Local Authority but kept up his interest in the interpretation of historic buildings in his spare time by working on reconstruction drawings, mostly for Cadw's highly successful series of guide books, and also later for English Heritage when their guidebooks began to follow the same pattern. Eventually reconstruction drawings became a full-time occupation, working as a self-employed illustrator for a variety of clients. Currently supposedly retired, but more often than not still working on yet another project that has triggered his interest in historic buildings.