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When we took Tuxlith Chapel in West Sussex into our care in the 1970s, it had been derelict for decades. At the time we didn't have enough money to re-instate the lath and plaster ceiling, so we nailed some painted boards across the ceiling.
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This did the trick until last year, when the boards began to fail, so we went back, and this time, thanks to a Culture Recovery Fund grant, we can restore the lath and plaster ceiling.
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Here it is in an early phase of the work.
The plasterer, Ian Holloway, carefully removed all the rusting nails and damp boards, and has set out the base for his plaster: carefully spaced riven oak laths.
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The plasterer, Ian Holloway, carefully removed all the rusting nails and damp boards, and has set out the base for his plaster: carefully spaced riven oak laths.
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✈ Thank you @HuddlestonNigel for joining @Samuel4WECA and I @BristolAero this afternoon!
Thrilled you got to see the hard work Lloyd and the team have been doing, with support worth £1.1million from @DCMS #CultureRecoveryFund and @HeritageFundL_S #HereforCulture (1/3)
Thrilled you got to see the hard work Lloyd and the team have been doing, with support worth £1.1million from @DCMS #CultureRecoveryFund and @HeritageFundL_S #HereforCulture (1/3)
This huge investment allowed @BristolAero to keep the museum running and ready to welcome visitors when they reopen on 17 May! It's looking brilliant and I can't wait for you all to be back learning about our area's history. (2/3)
🔵 They have also benefitted from the furlough scheme, rates relief, the VAT deferral and much more, part of more than £280 billion the Gov has invested to protect businesses and jobs. #HereforCulture (3/3)
Layers of Victorian tiles cracking and bursting open in the chancel of St Andrew's, Wood Walton, Cambridgeshire.
This lonely, medieval church on the edge of the Great Fen has been suffering from structural movement for centuries, defying all attempts to steady it.
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This lonely, medieval church on the edge of the Great Fen has been suffering from structural movement for centuries, defying all attempts to steady it.
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We've been working on it - little and often as funds allow - new roofs, new drainage, masonry repairs, and now re-plastering the chancel walls and repairing the floor.
And we’re making progress... Our monitors indicate that the church hasn’t moved in two years! 🥳
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And we’re making progress... Our monitors indicate that the church hasn’t moved in two years! 🥳
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This is positive, though it’s still early days...
These chancel walls are currently being redecorated, the floors stabilised. (Pictures will follow when the work is complete.)
Next, we plan to move on to the nave, which has been prey to thieves and vandals for decades...
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These chancel walls are currently being redecorated, the floors stabilised. (Pictures will follow when the work is complete.)
Next, we plan to move on to the nave, which has been prey to thieves and vandals for decades...
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We’re delighted that roofing works at St Mary’s, Long Crichel, Dorset are complete. Long overdue, works included repairs to the oak wall-plate, renewing handmade plain clay tiles, installing new hamstone eave slabs and ridge tiles, and reinstating the angel in the apse.
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The roof at St Mary’s is a king-post truss design, and ranges from 15th century in parts to 1850s in others, as the church was largely rebuilt after a fire in the early 19th century. We found the wall plate to be decayed in places, and new sections were spliced in.
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When the builders started stripping the roof, they found that a vast number – far more than anticipated – of the clay roof tiles were cracked, disintegrating, defective. We ordered new handmade clay tiles, and managed to reuse about 50% of the existing tiles.
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A bird's eye view of St Mary's, Mundon in Essex.
This wonderful brick and timber medieval church has been in our care since 1975. Before we adopted it, its fate was a race of how quickly it could collapse or be demolished...
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This wonderful brick and timber medieval church has been in our care since 1975. Before we adopted it, its fate was a race of how quickly it could collapse or be demolished...
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We've undertaken many phases of repairs over the past 45 years, but with damage from an errant V-bomb in 1944, dereliction and vandalism in the 1970s, and the unstable soil, this is a church that needs a lot of care.
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St Mary's will always be a work in progress.
We’ve just completed repairs to the woodwork: windows, beams and boxpews. We've also installed monitors throughout to help us understand how, why and when the church is moving, so we can develop a plan for structural repairs.
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We’ve just completed repairs to the woodwork: windows, beams and boxpews. We've also installed monitors throughout to help us understand how, why and when the church is moving, so we can develop a plan for structural repairs.
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England has about 3,000 'lost' or deserted medieval villages. We have churches in a fair few of them. Like St Mary Magdalene, Caldecote: a weather-beaten majesty with embattled parapets, cinquefoil tracery and a rather regal porch. Hinting at grandeur within…
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Entering through the south porch visitors are met by an extraordinary, floor-to-(almost) ceiling stoup. Dated to the 15th century, the shaft is carved with rows of quatrefoils, while acanthus clambers up the canopy. The proportions are so great, it feels very out of place.
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Step beyond this to see the font: an octagonal affair from the same century encrusted with cusped panels, heraldry and foliage. The simple moulded pews also date to the 1400s, as do the glittering fragments of stained glass...
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Important covid update on @DCMS areas
With everyone’s hard work we’ve continued to keep the virus under control so we can now allow more leisure, sport and cultural activities to reopen safely
With everyone’s hard work we’ve continued to keep the virus under control so we can now allow more leisure, sport and cultural activities to reopen safely
Sports events with fans
Pilots with fans can now continue from 15th August starting with the final of the World Snooker Championships in #Sheffield
@uk_sport @WeAreWST @SGSA_UK
Pilots with fans can now continue from 15th August starting with the final of the World Snooker Championships in #Sheffield
@uk_sport @WeAreWST @SGSA_UK
🎭 News
Indoor Performances with socially distanced audiences will be permitted from this weekend
Another important step on the recovery of the arts, helped by our £1.57bn rescue package
This Government is #HereForCulture
@ace_national
Indoor Performances with socially distanced audiences will be permitted from this weekend
Another important step on the recovery of the arts, helped by our £1.57bn rescue package
This Government is #HereForCulture
@ace_national
