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Gradus Provides Wetherby Methodist Church with a Divine Flooring Solution
Gradus has supplied Genus carpet and Boulevard 6000 secondary barrier matting to Wetherby Methodist Church, as part of a refurbishment project.
Wetherby Methodist Church is located in the centre of Wetherby town and is used by the local community for church services, activities and functions. In June 2011, the church completed a major refurbishment to its entrance area, main congregation area and staircases.
Gradus’ Genus carpet and Boulevard 6000 secondary barrier matting were installed in the newly refurbished church, helping to create a fresh and contemporary environment for visitors.
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Top Ten College Demands the Best in Architectural Metalwork
Holy Cross Sixth Form College, Bury, rated among the best in the country, demands the best even when it comes to its restoration work. Ken Brogden Ltd and its owner Jason Steinbach were called back in to carry out restoration fabrication work including the following:
New Balustrade to Sunken Garden.
The retaining wall to the sunken garden was beyond repair and the college had instructed a building firm to rebuild it.
Read more: Top Ten College Demands the Best in Architectural Metalwork
Dr Manon Williams appointed to Board of Heritage Lottery Fund and National Heritage Memorial Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) today welcomed the announcement that Dr Manon Williams will join the Board as Deputy Chair and Chair of the Committee for Wales from January 2012.
She takes over from Dan Clayton Jones who steps down after seven years.
Florence Institute reaches new heights
Liverpool’s Florence Institute looks is set to draw a crowd of dignitaries at its official ‘Topping Out’ Ceremony on Wednesday 23rd November at 11.00am.
The event highlights the culmination of ten years of work by Purcell Miller Tritton to restore the ‘Florrie’ to multi-functional community use, providing valuable recreational facilities for the city and reinstating the Institute’s external structure, which survived the Second World War but was badly damaged by arson some years ago and has since remained unoccupied.
Worth Park to be restored with £2.4m Lottery support
Crawley Borough Council has received a grant of £2.42m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) for the Worth Park restoration project.
The money from the Funds’ joint Parks for People programme will be used to return the area to its former Victorian glory and ensure that more people visit and enjoy this historic park. The council, which is also contributing £975,000 towards the five-year project, expects work to begin early in 2012.
Read more: Worth Park to be restored with £2.4m Lottery support
The Restoration of St. Andrew’s Church, West Dereham, Norfolk
St. Andrew’s is considered by English Heritage to be one of the finest Medieval churches in England.
The round tower, for which it is noted, dates from Saxon times and is built from ironstone conglomerate masonry which is characteristic of the East Anglian region. The octagonal brick belfry on top of the tower was added in the 16th century. The church’s nave and chancel are largely unchanged since the perpendicular windows were fitted in the 15th century.
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Maryhill’s new stained glass windows of today revealed at last!
Stained glass is an ancient art form that stretches back hundreds of years. Now, here at Maryhill Burgh Halls, we’re ready to reveal the world’s first ever interactive stained glass window.
Scan the 2D barcode in the window with your smartphone, and you’ll be automatically taken to a webpage explaining the designs and giving information about the glass.
While the new glass is as modern as can be, stained glass in Maryhill has a long history: in 1878, the then Burgh commissioned twenty stained glass windows to showcase the trades and industries of Maryhill. They were designed by the artist Stephen Adam, and have become known as the crown jewels of Maryhill.
Read more: Maryhill’s new stained glass windows of today revealed at last!
Stationers Hall
Restoration, Conservation and preservation are intrinsically linked and it is not often the 3 are employed separately.
Faced with a broken piece of stained glass can involve several methods of treatment:-
• To retain as much of the original glass as possible (conservation)
• To replace any missing fragments that are either too many and too small to make viable repairs with or to replace the entire piece (restoration)
• To protect from future harm all the collected fragments once a cohesive piece has been made from them (preservation)
A set of 5 stunning windows made by Mayer & Co. of London and Munich in the 1860’s had suffered some damage, but mostly a thick coating of soot from a fire in a nearby wooden screen. The windows depict the relevant greats of the age such as Tyndale and William Shakespeare; the main window depicting Caxton presenting his new printing press to the King.
A missing fragment requires replacement
John Constable ‘comes home’ to Hampstead
Artist John Constable’s love of Hampstead is largely overlooked but, now, as the second centenary of his first visit approaches, a new exhibition will open, thanks to a grant of almost £50,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum will be marking the event this year with a major six-month exhibition of some of Constable’s original works on display just a few steps from the views that inspired them. Burgh House has submitted a formal loan request for the paintings to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Restoration begins on historic gates at Canterbury Cathedral
HISTORIC gates that have stood at the entrance to Canterbury Cathedral for more than 300 years have been removed.
Expert craftsmen will now spend months restoring the heavy oak ChristChurch gates, which date back to the Restoration of King Charles II.
Canterbury: Christchurch Gate old oak gates removed from Canterbury Cathedral for renovation
The gates have provided a welcome sight for tourists and pilgrims but have been battered by the elements.
Cathedral spokesman Sheena Daly said: "The need to conserve the gates was pressing, as there was a lot of damage, especially at the bottom, and water could get it which could make them rot."
Engineers from Canterbury-based Artful Logisticshttp://www.artfullogistics.com/ had the huge task of removing the heavy gates on Tuesday, October 11.
Read more: Restoration begins on historic gates at Canterbury Cathedral
National Museum of the Royal Navy to tell the story of the Royal Navy from 1900 to the present day
The National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard has recently been awarded an HLF grant to allow project architects Purcell Miller Tritton to complete the transformation of the Museum’s Storehouse 10 building.
The project, which has already received planning and listed building consent, will begin in late 2012, and open to public in 2014 (the centenary of the start of World War I). It will enable the NMRN to introduce a key part of maritime history at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, adding to the museum’s existing Nelson Gallery and Sailing Navy Gallery. New 20th and 21st Century galleries will be incorporated into the scheme to create a seamless chronological timeline of naval history from the 18th Century to the present day.
Refurbishment of Davies Brother gates at St Peter’s Church, Ruthin illuminates the town
The historic wrought iron gates at St. Peters Church, Ruthin have been brought back to former glory following a massive restoration project. Blacksmiths David and Gwilym Jones from Flintshire Forge in Holywell, Flintshire were given the honour of working on the gates originally designed and made by the Davies Brothers of Wrexham in the 18th Century.
The gates at Ruthin are a wonderful example of the quality of craftsmanship of Robert and John Davies, incorporating elegant scrolls and finials with intricate leaves and organic forms, exquisite cherubs with impressive overthrows.
Read more: Refurbishment of Davies Brother gates at St Peter’s Church, Ruthin illuminates the town
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