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Romanesque stone sculpture pervades buildings throughout Britain and Ireland. Carvings of human figures, animals, monsters, grotesques, religious motifs, geometric patterns, foliage and other adornment from the 11th and 12th centuries can be found in parish churches and cathedrals, houses and halls, and castles and museums, throughout the British Isles. Romanesque sculpture marked a highpoint in artistic production, corresponding to the boom in high-quality building that followed the Norman Conquest, and reflecting a new set of links with mainland Europe. We are pleased to announce that a further 3000 images from the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) are now available online via AHDS Visual Arts. This latest addition brings the total number of digital images available from the CRSBI to over 14,000 images. The aim of the CRSBI project is to photograph and record all surviving British and Irish Romanesque sculpture, making this important part of our heritage available over the Internet. A team of skilled and dedicated volunteer fieldworkers locates and visits sites where Romanesque sculpture survives, describing, measuring and taking photographs. This latest addition from the CRSBI includes records of Romanesque sculpture in Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Suffolk, East and West Riding of Yorkshire, and Tipperary and Roscommon in the Republic of Ireland. For more information on CRSBI please go to: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/CRSBI.html View the CRSBI collection and the entire AHDS Visual Arts image catalogue at: www.visualarts.ahds.ac.uk For up to date information on forthcoming workshops and free visits please see the online ARLIS/UK & Ireland Events Calendar 2006 at http://www.arlis.org.uk/even/